SYNOPSIS

This project aims in providing a user friendly, reliable and automated irrigation pump
controlling system for illiterates. Now a days technology is running with time, it completely
occupied the life style of human beings. Even though there is such an importance for technology
in our routine life there are even people whose life styles are very far to this well known term
technology. So it is our responsibility to design few reliable systems which can be even
efficiently used by them. This basic idea gave birth to the project soil moisture sensor based
irrigation pump controller and this project aims in introducing the automation technology into
the lives of the illiterates.

The purpose of this project is to monitor soil moisture and control a irrigation pump
using microcontroller powered by solar. This can be achieved by the use of soil moisture sensor,
which senses the water content in the soil. This sensor output is given to a Microcontroller based
control system for further data processing. Whenever the soil moisture content goes below some
predefined level, and then this information is sent to Microcontroller based control system.
Based on the command received the Microcontroller switches ON or OFF the irrigation pump
motor.

This project also consist of dry run protection of pump motor, when ever water level
reaches below the pump level the liquid level sensor will send the signal to the Microcontroller
based control system. Based on the command received the Microcontroller switches ON or OFF
the irrigation pump motor.
The features of the project are:
Automatic Soil moisture sensing system.
Irrigation motor control.
Dry run protection of motor
The hardware components used are:

Solar panel
Diodes 1N4007 and 1N148
LM317 regulator
Boost converter
Sealed lead acid Battery
ARM7 LPC2148 Microcontroller
Keyboard
Liquid crystal display
Moisture sensor
Water level sensor
DC Motor pump
Resistors
Capacitors
LEDS
Opto coupler

Soft wares used are:

Kiel software
H-jtag

BLOCK DIAGRAM

BLOCK DIAGRAM OF SOLAR POWERED AUTOMATIC

IRRIGATION SYSTEM
 Charge
Solar control Battery
panel circuit

Regulator
LM317

Display

Moisture ARM7
Sensor LPC2148
MICRO-
CONTROLLE
R Keyboard

Dry run
protection

Motor
Pump