What is Data Analysis

Most countries have an economy that is dependent on agriculture—either in a magnificent or small way, from employment generation to national income contribution—implying that agriculture is inevitable. Polyhouse farming is a new and widely accepted method of farming in the present days. The polyhouse is made in such a way that it can provide water and fertilizers in required amounts in a controlled manner, which can result in high yields. Polyhouse requires severe monitoring of crops as stagnant air, and lack of air circulation will lead to breeding of insects and materialistic loss. Hence, this chapter proposes an IoT-based disease-monitoring prototype for an agricultural/polyhouse application. The prototype is designed and tested to identify the disease onset in cucumbers. This work initially focuses on recognizing the critical cucumber diseases in polyhouse using NodeMCU and Raspberry-Pi-based hardware model. The decisions to be made and the major changes in the sensed parameters if any will be intimated to the farmers using a specifically designed mobile application.