Dynamic Waypoint Navigation Assisted Agricultural Flying Vehicle for Field Data Collection

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely used in agriculture applications, industrial automations, smart home applications, battlefield surveillances, landslides detection, forest fire detection systems, etc. Agriculture is the backbone for any country as its stability and economy are totally depend on agriculture. Most of the cultivation lands in our world are located in remote places, which are far away from the residential area, where frequent land observation is not possible. In conventional agriculture, farmers should physically visit their sites to observe the soil moisture, humidity, fertilizer contents to ensure the proper irrigation and crop management. This requires lot of human resources, time and money. In this paper, a novel Field Sensor Unit (FSU) and a Flying Agriculture Vehicle (FAV) are proposed to collect the agricultural field data like soil moisture, temperature, fertilizer contents from the field without manual intervention. The proposed FAV system significantly reduces the manual intervention, cost and field observation time.