Paper Info
Title
Test implementation of a sensor device for measuring soil macronutrients
Abstract
Continuous cropping without adequate measurement and provisioning of soil nutrient may endanger the sustainability of agriculture. Soil nutrient measurement is greatly required for proper plant growth and effective fertilization. Existing methods of soil testing are costly and time consuming. In this paper, we have developed a sensing system using high precision, wide spectral range Photo Diode (PD), low spectral-width Light Emitting Diode (LED), microcontroller, analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for measuring soil macronutrients. We have integrated a GPRS modem with our sensing unit for remote data collection to a server. A cell of 5.5 mm path length is used to contain soil solutions. The resolution of 0.1-20 mg/100g has been used as standard solution. The test samples are taken from different farmlands and the results are compared with those obtained by a color chart judgement after laboratory analysis. The results found from our proposed system has good level of agreement with the laboratory results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/NSysS.2015.7042951
NSysS
Keywords
Field
DocType
analogue-digital conversion,crops,light emitting diodes,microcontrollers,modems,packet radio networks,photodiodes,sensors,soil,testing,gprs modem,led,analog-to-digital converter,color chart judgement,continuous cropping,farmlands,fertilization,laboratory analysis,light emitting diode,microcontroller,remote data collection,sensor device,soil macronutrients,soil nutrient measurement,spectral range photo diode,test implementation,production,agriculture
Data collection,Telecommunications,Remote sensing,Environmental science,Color chart,Microcontroller,Standard solution,General Packet Radio Service,Soil test,Nutrient,Photodiode
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
4
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tamal Adhikary1334.48
a k das251.14
Md. Abdur Razzaque327830.25
Muhammad Chowdhury44414.54
shohana parvin510.35