An IoT based Smart Irrigation System

     The main motivation for this project came from our villages where the economy is based on agriculture and climatic conditions lead to lack of rainfall and water scarcity. Farmers working on arable land rely solely on rain and drill wells to irrigate the land. Even if the farmland

Project Title

An IoT based Smart Irrigation System

Project Area of Specialization

Internet of Things

Project Summary

     The main motivation for this project came from our villages where the economy is based on agriculture and climatic conditions lead to lack of rainfall and water scarcity. Farmers working on arable land rely solely on rain and drill wells to irrigate the land. Even if the farmland has a water pump, farmers will need to manually intervene to turn the pump on and off as needed. In this work we are going to minimize this manual intervention of the farmer. Recently, farmers have been using irrigation technology through manual control , where farmers periodically irrigate the land by turning the water pump on and off as needed. This work facilitates the farm irrigation by switching the pump motor ON and OFF through android application their cellphones. This automatic irrigation system has a low cost and can be affordable by many Pakistani?s farmers.

Project Objectives

Irrigtion of plants is usually a very time- consuming activity, to be done in a reasonable amount of time, it requires a large amount of human resources. Traditionaaly all the steps were executed by humans. Nowadays some systems use technology to reduce the number or workers or the time required to water the plants. With such systems, the control is very limited, and many resources are still wasted. Water is one of these resources that are used excessively. Many irrigation is one method used to water the plant.

This method represents massive losses since the amount of water given is in excess of the plants needs. The excess water is evacuated by the holes of the pots in greenhouses, or it percolates through the soil in the fields.

The contemporary preception of water is that of a free renewable resource that can be used in abundance. It is therefore reasonable to assume that it will soon become a very expensive resource everywhere. In adition to the excess cost of waterm labour is becoming more and more expensive. As a result, if no effort is invested in optimising these resources, there will be more money involved in the same process. Technology is probably a solution to reduce costs and prevent loss of resource, this project can be a strong way to tackle such a situation.

Project Implementation Method

microcontroller based automatic irrigation system which consist of three sensors connected to controller and the values from these sensors send to Node MCU .This Node MCU send information to AdaFruit.AdaFruit send this information to the Mobile app and web application.Another Node MCU send msg to Microcontroller and this microcontroller send command to relay and relay send information to either start or stop the motor.

Benefits of the Project

• There is an urgent need for a system that facilitates the agricultural process and eases the burden on farmers. With recent advances in technology, it has become necessary to increase the efficiency of annual crop production in a fully agrocentric way.

• The ability to conserve natural resources and promote plant production is one of the main objectives in the integration of this technology in the country's agricultural sector.

• To save effort, water and time for farmers. Irrigation management is a complex decision-making process to determine when and how much water to add to a growing plant to meet certain management objectives.

• If the farmer is far from the agricultural zone, the current conditions will not notice it. Therefore, efficient water management plays an important role in the irrigated agricultural farming systems.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

It consist of different types of sensing units such as Soil moisture sensor to measure water content of soil, temperature sensor to detect the temperature and Humidity Figure.

The android based and web based on an automatic irrigation system which performs multiple operations in the field of agriculture, this project uses a Node MCU which is programmed to receive the information of multiple sensors of the field. One microcontroller receives this signal from Node MCU; it generates an output that drives a relay for operating the water pump.

If user sees the soil moisture value is below the threshold or the temperature exceeds the threshold value then the user will turn on motor through an Android application or web application until the levels of moisture and temperature are optimized and then turn off motor. Android mobile operating system is interfaced with the microcontroller to control the parameters of the field. The soil moisture and temperature sensor insert into the field. Connections from the soil moisture and temperature sensor are interfaced to the microcontroller. This signal is sent to mobile which displays the sensor values and switch ON/OFF to user.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Agriculture

Other Industries

Core Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

Other Technologies

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Responsible Consumption and Production

Required Resources

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