Solar Based Automatic Irrigation Robot for Farm Monitoring

Agriculture plays an important role in Indian economy. The main issues which are faced in farming are water deficiency and high costs expected by labors. These major issues can be solved using smart automated irrigation system.

Agriculture contributes to a major portion of India’s GDP. These issues can be resolved using agriculture task automation, which encourages precision agriculture.  Considering abundance of sunlight in India we developed this project.

These major issues can be solved using smart automated irrigation system. So we proposed a redness based smart farming using solar panel. This system consists of 3 sensors temperature, soil moisture and luminosity and senses the soil level. When soil moisture is less than the threshold level, the water is pumped to the crop. Various numbers of operations are performed in the agriculture field. Very basic operation is seeding. But the present methods of seeding are problematic. The equipment’s which are used for seed sowing are inconvenient to handle. So there is a need to develop the system which reduce the efforts of farmers. This system introduces an efficient mechanism which aims to drop seeds at desired position with specified distance between two seeds and lines while sowing. These operations are controlled by the human using mobile through SMS. The controller passes the information which is gathered from various sensors to server utilizing GPRS.

Keywords: LCD, NodeMCU, Bluetooth sensor, soil moisture sensor, LDR, solar panel, servo motor, DC motor, relay, L293D, GSM, DC pump.