Agriculture Tech Solutions

Project Title

Agriculture Tech Solutions

Project Area of Specialization Internet of ThingsProject Summary

Agriculture is taken into account the back bone of Pakistan economy, which relies heavily on the major crops. Agriculture constitutes the country largest sector of our economy. Majority of the population, either directly or indirectly, hooked in to this sector.

It feeds whole rural and urban population.

Realizing its importance. Pakistan's principal natural resources are arable land and water. In Pakistan, the most agricultural province is Punjab. Farmers still use traditional methods of farming management leading to inputs wastage and low production due inaccurate types and amount of fertilizers applied to the field, which depends upon soil analysis and also on plant yield.

Now we are implementing a system that full full all the required functionality in very precise manner using the smart, efficient, modern technology in farming. That boost the farming. A big huge change in farming. Turning the old traditional farming to modernize farming.

Agriculture needs 85% of the available freshwater and its requirement may increase in future. You can compare the population rate now with past 50 years ago population rate. You can observe the huge difference between the population rate. Now simply just imagine the population rate after 50 years.

Population is increasing day by day, that can become a disaster in future. To over come it. It is the best time to use the resources efficiently also save them for future use, and getting 100 percent outcome from the minimal use of resources now.

Hence, a system is required to utilize water efficiently in agriculture. The modern drip irrigation system lessens a smart amount of water usage compared to the normal methods. There no need to supply the overflow water to the plants. Only provide needed amount of water to plants according to plants need. It helps us, not to waste large amount of water resource on daily basis without any reason.

Become smart, use the smart and valuable methods and give your 100 percent using less sources. It is also valuable for Pakistan now or also for future time. Because other countries also using Smart Technology in there daily bases routine in many fields such as Agriculture, Farming etc.

If in future we want to stand with other countries, that are use their resources efficiently then its is the need of Pakistan.

Project Objectives

The top of the list, main objective of this project is to develop an automated system that solves problems related to watering plants and agriculture, such as controlling functionality and saving resources (water mainly), increasing the agricultural production using minimizing manual interventions in watering trees while increasing the watering speed, smartly water quantity and preserving plants from fungi.

All these functions make the automated watering system a sustainable option to be considered to improve the agriculture irrigation. Goal of this study is to finding out the excellent automation technique for irrigation system automatically controlled through

micro-controller and Software in a way that allows the user to monitor all information and manage the device immediately from a mobile device.

The objectives to consider are:

Simplify the watering system by installing and making the whole irrigation system, Optimize the water consumption,  the system is fully automated, Decrease the cost of working, and Make the user-friendly system.

System method includes the implementation of a device  prototype that works

Robotically. And is controlled through a mobile app. Designing an automatic watering system based on the Internet Of Things (IOT). Water Use Efficiency is achieved and controlled by using moisture sensor when the soil moisture drops below 30% then start watering to plants and stop when moisture value reaches to 70% preset data according to plant needs. The modern drip irrigation system lessens  a needed amount of water usage compared to the normal methods.

Some crops need variable amounts of water as it grows such as paddy plant. This paper proposes an automation of drip irrigation in which the micro-controller initially captures soil moisture level with the help of soil moisture sensor and transmits the data to the smartphone through IOT module. The micro-controller decides the water need and sends the status of the field to the Farmer’s mobile phone.

When the system is applied, it improves water use efficiencies and thus saves effort, money, time, energy, increases production, and productivity.

Project Implementation Method

We pick the Agriculture Tech Solutions as a project. It is very helpful in this we can perform all the functionality that was done by any Farmer in the Fields by the help of Mobile Application.

To achieve the exact project objectives, using Flutter (Dart) to design mobile application which is the controller of project, Arduino as operating system seems to be the best thing as it contains a number of open source software and cheap hardware as well as it is cheap and available in our country.

Choice of materials:

The first step of this process of designing the prototype of the automated irrigation system was the choice of materials. Because this is main things through we can run our project. In simple word you can say this is main controller room from where you can perform or manage each and single functionality easily on single click.

Field Control System:

This step depends on the working of soil moisture sensor with Arduino that detect quantity of water present in soil and send data to mobile application to show Moisture level on mobile screen.

First of all we pick an open source operating system which is Arduino UNO. Then, we programmed with sensor. We started with the soil moisture sensor.

To watering the plants, if soil moisture level is less. We are using water motor connected with Arduino, just click “On/Off Watering System” button in mobile application you can control water motor, and watering to plants.

To show weather details on mobile screen we are using the Weather API, that can provide each single details including the rain, temperature and humidity level in air. We included in our code water pump for irrigation  and tested.

Project Preparation:

Two 12 volt batteries, a small plastic tank, a Mobile App which we design for monitoring, the different type of connecting wires, and controller (Arduino with wifi Module).

Mechanical Design:

A sketch design for the project was made in the beginning, then the measurements were taken.

The main step is to make communication possible between Arduino and Mobile Application. To perform all the functionality which is done by a farmer now we do these task using mobile application.

This is the field need, to take full care “such as mother do for her child”. If you full fill all the required things then the fields provide good outcomes such as good yield using less resource utilizing.

Benefits of the Project

Global food security, using the renewable raw materials and production of energy from biomass are three of the “Great Challenges” for the 21st century:

1. The world population is expected to grow to up to 9.5 billion people in 2050. Combined with changing consumer demands, global food security will certainly remain a major challenge.
2. The environmental footprint of agriculture (e.g. on water and air quality, and from waste, pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions) must be reduced and natural capital maintained (e.g. soil, biodiversity) while simultaneously managing the transition from non-renewable to renewable energy sources.

Benefits of Modern Agriculture: -

1. Accuracy Improve.
2. Work Efficiency Increased.
3. Consumables Reduced.
4. Increased Yields.
5. Lower Driver Stress.
6. Ease of Use.
7. Easier Recording and Reporting.
8. Easier Financial Forecasting.
9.  Improved Sustainability.

We also implementing the Diseases Detection module in Mobile Application. Which also help the farmer to take real time image of the plants and find what disease make the plants sick, and then farmer proceed further step to make plants health better.

This module helping a lot, and farmer quickly try to maintain plants health better.  

With help of Modern technology we can get benefit in Agriculture sector. To save the energy sources. This system use water efficiently and thus saves effort, money, time, energy, increases yields.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

We design mobile application in flutter. This system can help to farmer to do the farming using latest one technology, that helping him to monitor the fields.

In the system a single user can monitor the field just on single click. Every single thing which a farmer performs by the help of 2 or more helpers that helping him to do the task. On other hand this system can perform all task. In batter way then human. Because the modern system can perform task without getting off tired.

Tools that are need to implement this project are given below: -

1. Development IDE:

Visual Studio Code for mobile application development. Arduino IDE for Arduino programming that connects sensor with Arduino.

1. Tools:

Android Device, Arduino UNO, ESP8266 Node MCU Wifi Module, Espressif ESP8266(ESP-01), Bread Board, Soil Moisture Sensor, Water Pump, Water Pipe, Wifi Installation charges, Wifi Router Device, Wifi Package, Jumper Wires (M to M), Jumper Wires (M to F), Jumper Wires (F to M), Relay Module, Power Cables and

1. Subscriptions:

Open Weather API Subscriptions for weather complete details.

After we completed the project and all the requirements were implemented, in order to finish this smart irrigation, system testing was the next step.

Connecting the wires can become complicated, but by using the plastic breadboard, it became easier to connect the wires. For designing the plant, special flexible pipes were used to facilitate the connection

from the water tank to the plant.

Functionality which you can now perform in this system, are following such as:

1. Find Moist Level (IOT, Using Soil Moisture Sensor).
2. Water the Plants (IOT, Using Micro-controller).
3. Find Humidity Level (Using Humidity Sensor).
4. Weather Forecasting (Using Weather Info API).

Real-time Monitoring Field (Detect Diseases in Plants Using Image Processing).

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry AgricultureOther Industries IT , Food Core Technology Internet of Things (IoT)Other Technologies Artificial Intelligence(AI)Sustainable Development Goals Decent Work and Economic Growth, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate ActionRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	42600
Arduino UNO	Equipment	2	1650	3300
ESP8266 Node MCU Wifi Module	Equipment	2	550	1100
Espressif ESP8266 ESP-01	Equipment	2	250	500
Bread Board	Equipment	2	200	400
Soil Moisture Sensor	Equipment	2	100	200
Water Pump	Equipment	2	500	1000
Water Pipe	Equipment	2	500	1000
Android Device	Equipment	1	20000	20000
Jumper Wires (M to M)	Equipment	1	300	300
Jumper Wires (M to F)	Equipment	1	300	300
Jumper Wires (F to M)	Equipment	1	300	300
Relay Module	Equipment	2	100	200
Power Cables	Equipment	2	500	1000
Open Weather Subscriptions	Miscellaneous	1	4000	4000
Project Report	Miscellaneous	1	2000	2000
Wifi Router Device	Equipment	1	3000	3000
Wifi Installation charges & Package	Miscellaneous	1	4000	4000