IOT Anti Locust Agri Drone

The utilization of drones in agriculture is turning out to be increasingly well known. As we are acquainted with the fact that the production rate of crops in agriculture is based on various parameters like temperature, humidity, rain, etc., which are natural factors and not in farmer?s control. How

Project Title

IOT Anti Locust Agri Drone

Project Area of Specialization

Robotics

Project Summary

The utilization of drones in agriculture is turning out to be increasingly well known. As we are acquainted with the fact that the production rate of crops in agriculture is based on various parameters like temperature, humidity, rain, etc., which are natural factors and not in farmer’s control. However, the field of agriculture is depending on some of factors like pests, disease, fertilizers, etc., which can be controlled by giving proper treatment to crops. Pesticides may increase the productivity of crops, but it also effects human health. So, our motive is to design IOT locust eliminator Agri-drone for spraying pesticides with hex-copter. The spraying of these products by using hex-copter drone speeds up the process and prevents the harvests from locust. We also intend to do crops surveillance and monitor it by anywhere. This autonomous drone will be capable of lifting payload of 2.5-3 kgs. It will spray pesticides to kill locust's eggs in the given coordinates autonomously.
It will also return to the launch location in the case of low battery or any failure. 

Project Objectives

People have been experimenting various methods for effectively applying pesticides to the crops but all on the cost of affecting health of the personnel involved in the task. By utilizing drone, we can finish the splashing work in less measure of time and without human contact. Drone will consistently shower the pesticides hence, there is no chance of harming crops. This will spare the hour of showering pesticides and furthermore it will lessen the sicknesses to the human body. It is used as sprinkling system.It can be operated as crop monitoring system. It protects field from locust swarms. It is used as spot spraying system. It is used to monitor health of entire fields of crops.

Project Implementation Method

Step 1: Assembling of drone (we ordered different parts/ components of drone according to our specifications and then assemble them.)

Step 2: Configuration of controller.

Step 3: Testing of drone.

Step 4: Testing payload capacity.

Step 5: Designing of spraying system.

Step 6: Assembling drone with sraying system.

Step 7: Testing with spraying system.

Step 8: Installation of IOT based camera using Rasberry pi.

Step 9: Final testing and crop monitoring.

Benefits of the Project

It is used for the core purpose of effecient agriculture spraying. This drone is low cost solution for countries like Pakistan. It offers live camera monitoring, flight recording, crops monitoring. It is a cure for skin diseases and infections. It can also be used for crops surveillance. It is 50 times faster than the typical backpack sprayer. It is remotely accessing the fields. Spraying of pesticides by drone is less time consuming. More over, it lessen the human interaction with pesticides.

Further advancement in this project is very helpful in analysis of soil and fields. It can also help farmer to conserve vital resource(water)

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

This drone will be autonomous drone which will be capable of lifting payload of 2.5-3 kgs. It will spray pesticides to kill locust's eggs in the given coordinates autonomously.
It will also return to the launch location in the case of low battery or any failure.
We are using here EMax 2216 motors with 12" propellers giving us 1380-1400 grams of thrust per motor.
Our controller is pixhawk 2.4.8 which have built in compass and it is connected with GPS module with gives it pin point location. 
Our setup is on carbon fiber frame of 600mm.
According to our calculation our expected flight time is 15-18 mins and we will be able to carry 3liters of pesticide on our drone to spray.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Core Industry

Agriculture

Other Industries

Food , Health

Core Technology

Robotics

Other Technologies

Internet of Things (IoT)

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People, Decent Work and Economic Growth

Required Resources

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