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The word “smart” means intelligent, clever, wise, etc. Now, when the word sits as a prefix with farming and built the word “smart farming”, obviously it is different from the traditional farming. In the past years, farmers had to monitor all the necessary things in field themselves or by hiring other labor for the same. Firstly, it requires manual checking of all the things associated with farming as well as it is time consuming. Secondly, it acquires a huge loss due to damage of growing crops in the field if continuous monitoring is not done. Thus traditional farming is not a good option due to major pitfalls. It also cannot fulfill the upcoming demand of food for upcoming years. Thus here is the need of smart farming system which will overcome all the shortcomings by taking the decision on their own in complex situations. Different sensors are embedded in the autonomous system to collect the data instant and support on time decision making process.