AUTOMATIC IRRIGATION SYSTEM

PROJECT TYPE
Micro controller (AT89C51) based hardware design with Software development.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall. Additionally, irrigation also has a few other uses in crop production, which include protecting plants against frost, suppressing weed growing in grain fields and helping in preventing soil consolidation. By the help of this project we can develop such a system in which irrigation can perform by our develop project, no need of manual irrigation. If we are out of station because of any purpose then our plant get water at proper time. Means we are freely can stay outside with out any tension of plantation. This circuit comprises sensor parts built using op-amplifier ic lm324. The operational amplifier configure as a comparator. So two copper wire are inserted in the soil to sense whether the soil is wet or dry. If sensor senses that soil is dry, then it directs the controller to switch on motor. Our project regularly check the condition of soil, if water poured by the system is enough then it automatically turn off motor.

The project uses regulated voltage 5V,750ma power supplay.7805 voltage regulator using regulate the voltage, here bridge rectifier used to rectify the ac output of secondary 230/12v step down transformer.

Applications:
1).Roof gardens. 2).agriculture lands. 3).home garden.

Advantages: Highly sensitive. Works according to soil condition. Fit and forest system. Low cost and reliable circuit. System can be switched in to manual mode whenever required.

Block diagram:

Soil dry wet sensor

Ref voltage LM324 comparator transistor

Water RELAY pump

8051
Power supply

Microcontroller

AC input