*PG Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Regional Campus of Anna University, Coimbatore, India
**Head of the Department, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Regional Campus of Anna University, Coimbatore, India
***PG Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Regional Campus of Anna University, Coimbatore, India
Online published on 2 July, 2016.
Wireless sensor Networks (WSNs) are wide utilized in motoring and collecting interests of environment information. Besides the challenging environmental conditions, India needs efficient and cost effective Wireless sensor and actuator Network (WSAN) to assist the farmers and improve the crop production. This paper surveyed varied international automated irrigation approach and compared it with the Indian scenarios to adopt the most effective irrigation technique. Existing approaches requires an efficient decision support system that can work well with Indian conditions.
Wireless Sensor Networks; Indian Agriculture, Precision Agriculture, agent based drip irrigation, computer in agriculture
