  This article introduces a new mobile-based application of modern information
and communication technology in agriculture based on Internet of Things (IoT),
embedded systems and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The proposed
agricultural monitoring system was designed and implemented using Arduino
microcontroller boards, Wi-Fi modules, water pumps and electronic environmental
sensors, namely temperature, humidity and soil moisture. The role of UAV in
this study is to collect these environmental data from different regions of the
farm. Then, the quantity of water irrigation is automatically computed for each
region in the cloud. Moreover, the developed system can monitor the farm
conditions including the water requirements remotely on Android mobile
application to guide the farmers. The results of this study demonstrated that
our proposed IoT-based embedded system can be effective to avoid unnecessary
and wasted water irrigation within the framework of smart agriculture.
