Detail Proposal Form - Ideate Stage of Quarter Finals

Registration ID:
8810093
Name of Team Leader:
Hari Krishnan S
Registered Email ID:
harihk2401@gmail.com
Contact Number:
+918608377810
Address for Correspondence:
9/54,R.S.P THOTTAM,
SEELANAICKENPATTI,
SALEM-636201,
TAMIL NADU.
Name of Institute:
Dhirajlal Gandhi College of Technology.
Address of Institute:
Opposite SALEM AIRPORT,
SALEM-636309.
Team Name:
THE OPTIMIZERS
 Team Member Details:

Name of Team Email Id Contact Branch / Name of Institute

Members Number Area of
Specializatio
n
Hari Krishnan S harihk2401@gmail.com 8608377810 B.E ECE Dhirajlal Gandhi College of
Technology
Hari Krishnan M hhari8353@gmail.com 7871833977 B.E ECE Dhirajlal Gandhi College of
Technology
Deepak Raj R deepakrajraju5@gmail.com 7339316932 B.E ECE Dhirajlal Gandhi College of
Technology
Iswarya P ishuchlvn@gmail.com 6383963408 B.E ECE Dhirajlal Gandhi College of
Technology
Meera T meeraraj1301@gmail.com 77088 82356 B.E ECE Dhirajlal Gandhi College of
Technology

Faculty Details:

Name of Email ID Contact Designation Department Name of Institute

faculty Number Name
Prasad B bprasadbhala@gmail.com 9500472716 Assistant ECE Dhirajlal Gandhi
professor College of
Technology
Arun V venarunxp@gmail.com 9791966994 Assistant ECE Dhirajlal Gandhi
professor College of
Technology
 Section-I: Hardware Resource Section

Name of Hardware Resources:

SHAKTI Parashu (E32-A100) on Artix7-100T FPGA

If selected Hardware Resources with ARTIX7-100T FPGA, then provide justification for
not making use of the Hardware Resources with Artix7-35T FPGA, which may result in an
optimal utilization of the Hardware Resources for the innovative solution proposed.

The hardware selected is SHAKTI Parashu (E32-A100) on Artix7-100T FPGA, since it

has BRAM larger than in Artix7-35T FPGA. Moreover the DSP slices in the Artix7-100T
FPGA is also bit larger as compared to the Artix7-35T FPGA, which would be the best
suitable for our project. As we use several sensors and do a lot of data processing, we need
more RAM. Moreover in real time Artix7-35T FPGA may delay to process the input from
several sensors. So we use Artix7-100T FPGA.

If selected Hardware Resources as other (FPGA Board other than Artix7-35T and Artix7-
100T), then please mention the details of FPGA Board of your choice ( like Name of
Vendor, Series etc.). ( If not applicable put N/a)

N/a

If selected Hardware Resources as Other ( FPGA Board other than Artix7-35T and Artix7-
100T) then select processor eco system of your choice among SHAKTI – E32, SHAKTI-
C64, VEGA ET1031 or VEGA AS1061. (if not applicable put N/a)

N/a
 Section-II: Technical Aspects of Innovative Solution

Proposal Title:
ADAPTIVE SMART IRRIGATION SYSTEM USING IOT
Proposal Summary:
India is a predominantly agricultural economy that is following outdated agricultural
practices. Thus leads to financial losses to the farmers.
We propose an adaptive irrigation system takes decision on water management depending on
long term weather forecast, which adapts to both seasonal climate and local climatic changes for
efficient water management in farms. This method reduces water wastage and human labor.

Concept Note:
 Taking readings using sensors from the agricultural field and sending it to
NodeMCU.
 This NodeMCU transfers this data to cloud through IoT.
 Edge computing is performed in the cloud by taking the average of readings of the
sensors, thereby reducing data size.
 The FPGA board downloads the data from cloud.
 With this data the pre-formed algorithm compares present weather conditions with
previous year average and also with 30 day weather forecast (15 days before and
after) computes the data in order to make decision as output.

Objectives and Proposed Approach:

Strategy or methodology of work:

DHT11 Sensor:

It is a basic, ultra low cost temperature and humidity sensor. It uses a capacitive humidity
sensor and thermistor to measure the surrounding air.

 Operating Voltage: 3.5V to 5.5V

 Operating current: 0.3mA (measuring) 60uA (standby)
 Output: Serial data
 Temperature Range: 0°C to 50°C
 Humidity Range: 20% to 90%
 Resolution: Temperature and Humidity both are 16-bit
 Accuracy: ±1°C and ±1%
HR202 Sensor:

It senses the humidity present in the air.

 Working voltage: 3.3V to 5V

 Digital output and you can change when to output 1 and 0.
 The current of output signal can exceed 15mA
 PCB Dimension: 3.2cm X 1.4cm

Soil Moisture Sensor:

It is used to measure the volumetric water content of the soil.

 Operating Voltage: 3.3V to 5V DC

 Operating Current: 15mA
 Output Digital - 0V to 5V, Adjustable trigger level from preset
 Output Analog - 0V to 5V based on infrared radiation from fire flame falling on the sensor
 LEDs indicating output and power
 PCB Size: 3.2cm x 1.4cm
 LM393 based design
 Easy to use with Microcontrollers or even with normal Digital/Analog IC
 Small, cheap and easily available

NODEMCU:

NodeMCU is an open-source Lau based firmware and development board specially targeted for

IoT based Applications. It is used to store the information to the IoT cloud collected from the
sensors, then download the information from the cloud to the FPGA board.

 Microcontroller: Ten silica 32-bit RISC CPU Xtensa LX106

 Operating Voltage: 3.3V
 Input Voltage: 7-12V
 Digital I/O Pins (DIO): 16
 Analog Input Pins (ADC): 1
 UARTs: 1
 SPIs: 1
 I2Cs: 1
 Flash Memory: 4 MB
 SRAM: 64 KB
 Clock Speed: 80 MHz
 USB-TTL based on CP2102 is included onboard, Enabling Plug n Play
 PCB Antenna
 Small Sized module to fit smartly inside your IoT projects

BMP180 Sensor:
BMP180 can measure barometric pressure from 300 to 1100 hPa and temperature from -40°C to
85°C with ±1.0°C accuracy. The pressure measurements are so precise.

 Operating  voltage of  BMP180: 1.3V – 3.6V

 Input voltage of  BMP180MODULE: 3.3V to 5.5V
 Peak current : 1000uA
 Consumes 0.1uA standby
 Maximum voltage at SDA , SCL : VCC + 0.3V
 Operating temperature: -40ºC to +80ºC

ML8511 sensor:

ML8511 sensor is used to sense the UV radiation. The excess UV radiation may affect
the plants. As it need sufficient water to be supplied to the field in order to compensate the UV
radiation.

 Voltage: 2.7 V to 3.6 V DC

 Optimum Temperature: -20 °C to 70 °C
 Wavelength Detection: 280 - 390 nm
 Average current consumption: 300 uA
 Current consumption in standby: 0.1 uA

Weather Forecasting:

Weather forecasting is the prediction of what the atmosphere will be like in a particular
place by using technology and scientific knowledge to make weather observations. In our
project we are forecasting weather to the system through sensors for the irrigation purpose.
This method helps us to use the available water resources more efficiently by sensing the
moisture present in the soil.

Data Acquisition:

All the data like Humidity and temperature are collected by the sensors and other components,
will be stored to the IoT cloud and then it will be downloaded to the FPGA board.

Computation:

The average of all the previous set of readings will be taken. The average of the readings will
be compared to the current reading. The decision making algorithm is build for the
comparison process.
 Block diagram
Draw block diagram in word using insert options. The Blocks & Sensors must be from
methodology of work.
Temperature Sensor:
It is a basic, ultra low cost temperature and humidity sensor. It uses a capacitive
humidity sensor and thermistor to measure the surrounding Temperature. (DHT11)

Humidity Sensor:

It sense the humidity present in the air.(HR202)

UV Sensor:

ML8511 sensor is used to sense the UV radiation. The excess UV radiation may affect the
plants. As it need sufficient water to be supplied to the field in order to compensate the UV
radiation.

Atmospheric sensor:
 BMP180 can measure barometric pressure from 300 to 1100 hPa and temperature from -
40°C to 85°C with ±1.0°C accuracy. The pressure measurements are so precise.

Soil Moisture Sensor:

It is used to measure the volumetric water content of the soil.

NodeMCU:

NodeMCU is an open-source Lua based firmware and development board specially

targeted for IoT based Applications. It is used to store the information to the IoT cloud collected
from the sensors, then download the information from the cloud to the FPGA board.

IOT Cloud:

This is used to store the data from different sensors that takes reading from the field.

FPGA board:

The main part of this project is this FPGA board. This is the place where the program will
be dumped into this board for computation process as well as for the decision making which is
output.

Scope and Boundaries:

The weather forecast details are not precise for the smart irrigation system. So in this project for
a precise weather forecast details the smart irrigation system is fixed in the farmland to collect
the information about the humidity , temperature , soil moisture using uv sensor for around one
year. Then after collecting these data for one year using this weather forecast the smart irrigation
system will analyses the data of before 15 days and after 15 days from the past year for a
particular day and then it decides either to produce the water or not to produce the water and also
how much quantity of water to produce for a field.

Data Analysis:

In this project for collecting the data we are using the sensors like DHT11 for humidity,HR202
for temperature,BMP180 for pressure,ML8511 uv sensor, and soil moisture sensor. These
sensors collect the data and stored in the IOT cloud for data acquisition .for computation the
data stored in the IOT is transferred in the 100T FPGA board .These process is continued for one
year after out of all data the average data is taken and then the smart irrigation system is
implemented.

Timelines:
 S.no Timeline Goals/objective
1 Q1 Taking Sensor readings,
storing the data in IOT cloud,
analyzing the data.
2 Q2 Data analysis to framing
algorithm and decision
making.
3 Q3 System testing/prototype.

Requirement of Equipment/ Accessories/Components/ Resources:

For demo purpose:

Component Unit cost(INR) Quantity Total cost

DHT11 90.00 1 90
HR202 110.00 1 110
NodeMCU 210.00 1 210
BMP180 58.00 1 58
ML8511 450.00 1 450
Soil Moisture 61.00 1 61
Sensor
Total = 979
Relevant References:
1. https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga/artix-7.html
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things
3. Sensors. Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors (accessed on 18 October
2019).
4. https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/JAWF_Monitoring/India/monthly_maps.shtml
5. Network and Telecommunication Research Group, University of Haute Alsace, 34 rue du
Grillenbreit, 68008 Colmar, France.
6. Chandak, P. P. & Student, M. T., 2017 “Smart Farming System Using Data Mining” 12(11),
pp. 2788-2791.
7. Zhang, P. et al., 2017. The Construction of the Integration of Water and Fertilizer Smart
Water Saving Irrigation System Based on Big Data. 22017 IEEE International Conference on
Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and IEEE International Conference on
Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), pp. 392-397.

Section-III: Business Aspects of Innovative Solution

Novelty:

The novelty in this project is the use of IOT and Data analysis tools for decision making,
depending on previous year weather condition and extended weather forecast of current year.
This type of climate analysis driven irrigation method is very useful for the farmers. It reduces
the farmers work and also reduces the water spent on irrigation. From our project we adaptively
use the irrigation system in India .We store the sensors information in cloud.

Opportunity:

There are lots of opportunities for farmers from this project because the recently
government introduced a law named FARM ACT 2020. It proposes the following:

1. The farmers produce trade and commerce (promotion and facilitation) act, 2020.

2. The farmers (empowerment and protection) agreement of price assurance and farm
services act, 2020.

3. The essential commodities (amendment) act, 2020.

This law increases the opportunity for farmers. Our project also helpful for this law and the
farmers. From our project and this law increases the farmers profit. Water also saved from this
project. From this project many people would like to do agriculture in future. So the agriculture
is most likeable work in the future.

Market Feasibility:

Addressable Market: AGRICULTURE, NURSERY GARDENS, CENTRALIZED

PARKS.
Target Market: FARMERS, FARMING FIRMS.
Commercialization Roadmap:

S.no Timeline Goals/objective

1 Taking Sensor
Q1 readings, storing the
data in IOT cloud,
analyzing the data.
2 Data analysis to
Q2 framing algorithm
and decision
making.
3 System
 Q3 testing/prototype.
4 Startup initialization.
Q4

Competitive Landscape:

Soroor Al-Zahrani and Heyam H. Al-Baity information technology department, college of

computer and information sciences, king Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Challenges and Risk:

We have no practical weather forecast readings. So we use our project for readings in first
one year. If we have a practical data of weather then we directly start our project in adaptive
mode. This is our main challenge for our project.

Relevant Reference: More references should be added

1. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/farm-laws-claims-and-reality-6717662/
2. https://youtube/3crNQ_1ccmU