UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA - FKE - UTM

52themselves to collect the data. The farmers just have to sit in the comfortable oftheir office or home in order to monitor their farm.This project implements both the system from GPS and GSM. This meansthat the farmers can use both systems to know the location of their sensors. Whenthe farmer place the device in the suburban area where no GSM coverage, it willuse GPS for locating position. On the other hand, when the GPS coverage isunavailable especially in indoors, GSM system will be use for the location.Furthermore, with the easily accessibility of the Internet, the farmers canlook into the web-database and know about the condition of their farm anytime andanywhere. Even when the farmers are at overseas or another country, they can alsoaccess to the database easily.The disadvantage of this project is that this device needs to connect topower supply in order to function. This means that the portability of the device isless and to install power supply in a farm in suburban area will increase the cost.6.3 Future DevelopmentFor future development, the device can be made to detect more parametersinstead of just temperature or humidity as this project implement. Parameter suchas pH, sunlight level or water level can be added to the device so that it becomes amore variety gadget. Of course this have to come with different type of sensorsconnected with the b’AT and this in term will affect the cost of the whole service.In addition, the device can be developed into where the farmers can sendSMS using cell-phone to the server to acquire the latest information of their farmsuch as the temperature information and the server will reply giving the farmers theinformation they need. And besides that, during emergency situation such as whenthe temperature or humidity has reach the limit figure which been set by the