GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM BASED REMOTE MONITORING OF FARM MACHINE'S OPERATION THROUGH ANDROID APPLICATION
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2021
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DRPCAU, PUSA
Abstract
Farm mechanization has a significant role in enhancing the farmer’s income as well as in reducing the human drudgery. The large and medium farmers can afford a tractor and other big machines but the small and marginal farmers are not capable to own it. Seeing these facts, some government and private agencies are continuously promoting the custom hiring centres at various levels. But they have not been as successful because of the poor monitoring of machines. Therefore, a project was undertaken to develop a farm machine’s monitoring system through GPS on smartphone. In first step, an Application named ‘Area Finder’ was developed to make a polygon joining extreme geolocations and to calculate the area of the polygon by uploading a file (in GPX or CSV format) containing the geolocations of a field. The developed Application was evaluated by collecting the geolocations through smartphone GPS. The percentage error in area calculated by ‘Area Finder’ was found up to ± 10% when uploaded the geolocations recorded by smartphone. Further, an Application named ‘GeoLocation’ was also developed to record the geolocations through smartphone GPS as well as to carry out the job of Area Finder at one platform. The error in area calculation was observed up to 20%; however, the error in time calculation was within ±2%. A Garmin GPS was also used in this project which was found to have better accuracy in recording the geolocations. Therefore, it was concluded that, the developed system may give more accurate result if better GPS recording device will be used.