TITLE:
Monitoring the Turmeric Finger Disease and Growth Characteristics Using Sensor Based Embedded System —A Novel Method
AUTHORS:
Maheswaran Shanmugam, Asokan Ramasamy, Sivaranjani Paramasivam, Priyadharshini Prabhakaran
KEYWORDS:
Embedded System, Turmeric Finger Growth, Rhizome Rot Disease, Natural Pesticides, Flex Sensor
JOURNAL NAME:
Circuits and Systems,
Vol.7 No.8,
June
7,
2016
ABSTRACT: In this cyber era, novelty
plays a prime role in the field of agriculture that majorly depends on
computer-based measurements and control. Herein before, it was totally
controlled and performed by the agriculturists. One of the technological
innovative methods to measure and monitor the turmeric finger growth
characteristics is the embedded system that is based on sensor array module
such as flex sensor, temperature sensor and pH sensor. The experimental work
has been designed and tested with five set of nodes and the growth of turmeric
finger is tenuously monitored by measuring the change in flex resistance. Out
of five nodes, two nodes were diseased. Deliberately, one node was left as such
and the other node was treated with natural pesticides (pseudomonas and viride)
to restrict the rhizome rot disease attack. After cultivation, it was found
that the rhizome rot disease attack on the node which was treated with
pesticides was comparatively lesser than the other node. The five different
nodes have been used in the experimental work with an average flex sensor
resistance of 3.962 cm/kΩ. In a nutshell, this proposed method manifests the
farmers to detect the rhizome rot disease at its earlier stage and to prevent
it as well by screening the growth of the turmeric fingers when it is under the
soil.