Applications of Smartphone Sensors in Agriculture

Abstract

In this article we discuss the use of smartphone in agriculture, different sensors available on smartphones and their applications. Smartphones have become big part of our daily life and they can be used in agriculture for various application ranging crop and crop disease detection, crop canopy, improving agricultural productivity, irrigation scheduling, monitor pest damage and ripeness of fruits etc. There is different type of sensors available on smartphones like Camera, GPS, Microphone, Accelerometer and Gyroscope which can be harnessed for various applications. There are apps like Plantix which identifies diseases in plants, apps for fertiliser calculations, apps for irrigation water requirement calculation and scheduling and many others.