Control and Monitoring System for Edaphoclimatic Variables in Rice Cultivation: Case Study

The project consists of monitoring edaphoclimatic parameters that influence the development of rice, in order to avoid that the crop is affected by these factors which are, PH, salinity, temperature, humidity, water level, and rainfall intensity. Soil salinity is one of the most important parameters that need our especial attention, because side effects can affect greatly the rice crops according to the vegetative phase, it can be very harmful in the initial phase but the damage will last until the latter phase. This paper presents a case study of a system implementation which aims to improve the edaphic environment, in order to optimize the crop production system. Different types of sensors were used in hardware development, and they were integrated with the microcontroller. Regarding the development of software, some programming languages are integrated such as Phyton, MySql and Arduino IDE interface which works for the acquisition, processing, and display of data.