Designing a cost-effective model leveraging serverless computing to provide weather forecasts to farmers in rural India
by Ravi Prakash Varshney; Dilip Kumar Sharma
International Journal of Information and Communication Technology (IJICT), Vol. 20, No. 4, 2022

Abstract: Serverless computing has been widely adopted as a platform for the deployment of various event-driven applications and services. The features like autoscaling, no resource management, pay-as-you-go, less expensive are some of the key reasons for its wide adoption in software development. It allows the developers to define applications as a sequence of event-triggered functions. Weather forecast plays a vital role in Indian agriculture, but rural Indian farmers are devoid of any form of weather forecast information. The dearth of weather information accounts for the reduction in crop productivity and hence, financial loss. In this paper, we propose a cost-effective and scalable architecture and a prototype of a serverless application that provides the weather forecast to the farmers in the form of a mobile push notification or short message service (SMS). With an operating cost of around $25 per month, the proposed model caters effectively to around 100,000 users'. We demonstrate how serverless computing, along with the other services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), can be glued to build a scalable and cost-effective solution and assist farmers in mitigating the losses incurred.

Online publication date: Wed, 01-Jun-2022

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