MAIC: A Proficient Agricultural Monitoring and Alerting System Using IoT in Cloud Platform

The Internet of things plays a crucial role in all the fields such as agriculture, health care, wearable’s, industrial IoT (IIoT), retail, smart city and smart home. In every field, sensors are used to monitor the device values and provided to alert to the decision-making process. In the proposed Monitoring and Alerting using IoT in Cloud platform (MAIC) work, we predict whether the sensor is sending values based on the predefined time schedule. Changes in the agriculture environment have to be captured by these sensors and should be updated in a regular phase. If not, something would have happened to sensors, and such anomaly can be detected easily with the help of ThingSpeak open-source IoT cloud and its apps. In addition, sensor values (like temperature, moisture, humidity, etc.) need to be validated to reflect the correct measures as per the environmental circumstances. If one of these anomalies is detected, smart alerts could be sent to mobile or Twitter or an e-mail account possessed by the individual involved in agriculture activities. The sensor values captured in cloud are processed, and if any drastic change is detected, instant alert is sent to the individuals. These alert messages are authenticated by performing appropriate tweet analysis using R. The MAIC perms an intelligent monitoring of sensor values, and it gives entire belief to the experts who are involved in the system.