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India being an agricultural country needs some innovation in the field of agriculture. Traditional methods of irrigation not only require water in quantity but percentage of water wastage is also high. Globally water is becoming a scarce resource that instigating the need of controlled crop irrigation. Recent advances Engineering & Technology, such as the convergence of internet of things (IoT), communication, wireless sensor networks and information technologies have paved the way for new era of monitoring and controlling the agricultural parameters from the remote places. To enhance the resource utilization in a constrained manner an autonomous energy efficient sensing platform is developed and is installed in an agriculture land to monitor the soil moisture, ambient temperature & humidity. Based on the soil conditions, motor pump can be Turned ON/OFF, the measured data from cultivation field is processed and sending the same information from to Amazon web servers through GPRS gateway. The measured data is accessed from server through the websites. The whole irrigation system is powered by solar energy with battery power management system. The automated irrigation system is tested in turmeric and onion plantation simultaneously for 50 days. Water savings is up to 90% when compared with the present trickle irrigation channel is achieved. By incorporating the automated irrigation scheme, consumption of water and electricity is reduced, further it increases the quality of food grains and the yield of crops.