Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 28, No 1: October 2022

Machine learning based smart weather prediction

Rajasekaran Meenal (Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences)
Kiruthic Kailash (Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences)
Prawin Angel Michael (Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences)
Jeyaraj Jency Joseph (Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences)
Francis Thomas Josh (Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences)
Ekambaram Rajasekaran (VSB Engineering College)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Oct 2022

Abstract

Weather forecasting refers to the prediction of atmospheric conditions depending on a given time and location. Weather prediction is essential and it plays a significant role in many sectors namely energy and utililities, marine transportation, aviation, agriculture and forestry to a greater extent. Accurate weather forecast mechanism help the farmers for suitable planning of farming operations that will prevent crop losses. In this work, the weather parameters namely precipitation, relative humidity, wind speed and solar radiation were predicted for few Indian locations using the conventional temperature based empirical models and machine learning algorithms such as linear regression, support-vector machine (SVM) and decision tree. Forecasting of weather parameters, on which agriculture depends, will increase the overall yield and it helps farmers and agricultural-based businesses to plan better. From the current results, it is observed that machine learning (ML) based methods had a better prediction results than the physics based conventional models for weather forecasting with mean square error of 0.1397 and correlation coefficient of 0.9259. The objective of this work is to arrive at an optimized end result and a better weather prediction using the Machine learning models with lesser computational effort.

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