Autonomous and Selective Irrigation System with Recommendation System and Andriod Application

Irrigation in most of the countries is performed with old methodology that needs human inspection for the irrigation and monitoring of the crops which mostly leads problems in the growth and harvest of the crops and it also causes to waste time and water both. The Role of irrigation in Agric

Project Title

Autonomous and Selective Irrigation System with Recommendation System and Andriod Application

Project Area of Specialization

Internet of Things

Project Summary

Irrigation in most of the countries is performed with old methodology that needs human inspection for
the irrigation and monitoring of the crops which mostly leads problems in the growth and harvest of the
crops and it also causes to waste time and water both. The Role of irrigation in Agriculture is very
important, it is very essential to water the crops as per their need, watering less or too much can damage
the crop, The farmer cannot sense the soil moisture and climatic changes.Nowadays water shortage
is a main difficulty for agriculture Therefore, efficient water control needs to be taken into consideration
during irrigation.The automation system that is implemented at home is known as Home automation, the
term home automation is referred to a system that can automate the household activities by installing
some basic sensing devices which read the input conditions and control the electronic appliances. the
Examples of home automation system are home surveillance system, automatic irrigation system, pet
feeding system, automatic door locks, robotic vacuum cleaners and many other household activities.
The role of agricultural engineering is boosting nowadays with the challenges of producing more foods with
less water coping with pollution hazard and climatic uncertainty.Technology
automation now a days is at its bloom and allowed us to solve this problem by fully automating the
irrigation system with very less involvement of the human interaction. Automatic irrigation system is
convenient for those who travel a lot if programmed and installed properly the system can save money and
water both. Typical commercial sensors for agriculture irrigation systems are very expensive, which
makes it impossible for smaller farmers to implement such type of system. However, manufacturers
are currently offering low-cost and budgetary sensors that can be used and connected to the nodes to
implement an affordable system for irrigation management and agriculture monitoring.Monitoring the
climatic and surrounding condition of the crop is not only important in evaluation of the crop, but there
are other factors that effect the crop quality and productivity such as crop and soil monitoring, attack
of wild animals and unwanted objects.In the modern drip irrigation systems, the most significant
advantage is that water is supplied near the root zone of the plants drip by drip due to which a large
quantity of water is saved.Due to the recent advances in IoT and WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks)
technologies that can be applied in the development of these systems.The NodeMCU is a central
device that receives the data from different sensors, then the Microcontroller Automatically matches the
requirements of the certain crops Selected by the gardener in android app, and Microcontroller sends
instructions to turn off or on the water Valve according to the requirements of the selected crop crops.

Project Objectives

Objectives of the proposed project: 

Sensing the environmental details
• Processing over microcontroller
• Upload data to cloud server
• Visualize, analyze and aggregate the sensed data
• Provide recommendations
• Proper water requirements for the crops
• Monitor the fields against wild animals by applying buzzer

The proposed system is actually designed to add new features that can help the agriculture and irrigation
system reach the very exciting level of automation.The first new feature is of adding the recommendation
system to the proposed system that has not been worked on before.The second new feature is that of
the introduction of excessive water management system to control the excessive amount of water in
the crops that is caused by flood or heavy rain.The latest NPK sensor is also added to the system to
calculate the amount of Nitrogen,phosphorus and potassium to deliver better and precise results.The
monitoring system is another new feature that has been added to observe if any wild animal has entered
the parameter of the field and so that the farmer can be apprised of and would be able to take proper
decision and act accordingly in case of emergency to avoid any damage to the plants. The farmer is able
to see the live stream of the sensor devices with android application, and can take any decision manually
if needed.Another new feature is that of the second motor in reversed order so in case of any flood or
heavy rain it would turn on and remove the excessive water off of the field. Andriod application is designed
to show all the received data from the sensors in shape of graphs , histogram , digital values and analogue
values so that the framer can have better idea of whatever is going on.

Project Implementation Method

Autonomous and Selective Irrigation System uses
NodeMCU Microcontroller Along with different sensing
devices to measure the different climatic requirements of the
Certain plant selected by the gardener through the android
App, the temperature, moisture and humidity and NPK data is collected from the sensors and then the data is matched to the actual climatic requirements of the plant in the certain condition, if the humidity is too high then the system will provide the less amount of water to the plant and vice versa and proper crop recommendations are sent to the user on android applicaion based on the sensed environmental data.

1) NodeMCU ESP8266: NodeMCU is an open-source Lua
based firmware and advancement board uniquely focused on
for IoT based Applications. It incorporates firmware that
sudden spikes in demand for the ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC from
Espressif Systems, and equipment which depends on the
ESP-12 module NodeMCU microcontroller is programmed to
integrate all connected sensors and Components used in this
project.

2) Soil Moisture Sensor: Soil moisture sensor is used to
measure the water content of the soil. In this project the Soil
Moisture Sensor detects the moisture level and then arduino
takes decision whether to water the plants or not

Temperature and Humidity Sensor: The DHT11 sensor
has been used to detect Temperature and Humidity both.
The sensor can measure temperature from 0°C to 50°C and
humidity from 20 percent to 90 percent with an accuracy
of ±1°C and ±1. The sensor is used to detect the real time
Temperature and Humidity in the garden and watering decisionis taken accordingly.

4) Relay Module: Relay is an Electro-mechanical device
that can be used to control high volt and high current load
such as solinoid Volves, Motors, Lamps and AC loads. The
Relay module works with a Microcontroller to switch on or
off the water Valve

5) solenoid water valve: Water Valve is an Electromechanical
Valve that is used to control the flow of liquid and
gas. The Solenoid Water Valve receives instruction from the
Microcontroller to start the flow of water to the field/garden.

6) Battery: the 9v battery is used in the system to provide
the required energy to run the water valve.

7) NPK Device: the NPK device which senses the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in the soil. which will be sent to the machine learning algorithm that will produce the proper crop recommendations to the user according to the sensed environment.

8) Cloud Computing : all sensing data is being transfered to the cloud server (Thingspeak.com), where the admin can visualize the real time sensing data and also perfom analysis on the sensors data.

9) Recommendations : machine learning model is being trained and tested by the (Crop recommendation Dataset) and then the real time NPK data from the soil and other climatic data is transfered to the model and proper reccomendations are sent to the user using the mobile Application.

Benefits of the Project

The proposed system is actually designed to add new features that can help the agriculture and irrigationsystem reach the very exciting level of automation.The first new feature is of adding the recommendationsystem to the proposed system that has not been worked on before.The second new feature is that ofthe introduction of excessive water management system to control the excessive amount of water inthe crops that is caused by flood or heavy rain.The latest NPK sensor is also added to the system tocalculate the amount of Nitrogen,phosphorus and potassium to deliver better and precise results.Themonitoring system is another new feature that has been added to observe if any wild animal has enteredthe parameter of the field and so that the farmer can be apprised of and would be able to take properdecision and act accordingly in case of emergency to avoid any damage to the plants. The farmer is ableto see the live stream of the sensor devices with android application, and can take any decision manuallyif needed.Another new feature is that of the second motor in reversed order so in case of any flood orheavy rain it would turn on and remove the excessive water off of the field.Andriod application is designedto show all the received data from the sensors in shape of graphs , histogram , digital values and analoguevalues so that the framer can have better idea of whatever is going on.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

After the successful complition of the project. It would be tested on all the modules of the hardware software and cloud system.It would give accurate results.Which would recommend different types of crops.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Core Industry

Agriculture

Other Industries

IT , Others

Core Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

Other Technologies

Cloud Infrastructure

Sustainable Development Goals

Decent Work and Economic Growth

Required Resources

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