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Smartirrigation Publishes 2020
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Abstract— Central Intelligent Agency (CIA) fact book usage from the ground level, is used for the domestic use,
ranked India a number 2 out of 238 countries. India takes of industrial and environmental uses that increases the water
17% of world’s population, but with 4% of fresh water scarcity problem. If such amount of water is used for other
resource. Out of which 80% of water is used for agriculture. usage , then the main use of water for agriculture has been
Country like India, has very good natural resources, but not shirked, causes the population to think about the optimal way
used in a congruous way. This lead to make water as an of water management.
adequate resource. So it is time for us to utilized the available
water in an efficient way and to amend the victuals One such method of water management is irrigation
productivity of the nation to compete with the world’s growth. system. Irrigation is a method of conveying water to food
The most critical thing is to manage the water system with the crops or cash crops to maximize the amount of crops yield.
available amount of water. In most of the agriculture lands the The usage of irrigation systems have not done in a optimized
crops are over watered with out checking the soil dampness. way do reduce the utilization of water in an efficient way.
This leads to the waste of water resource which can be utilized This causes more water then obligatory to be used or for
in some other areas where there is in need of water. Issue there not to be enough water to ascertain salubrious crops. As
related water system are constantly obstructing the stated by the World Bank that irrigation management system
improvement of the nation. So to enhance the water dwells to promote and sustain irrigation systems of the
management system, some of the smart techniques are evolved. groundwater level, that are previously placed and improves
The paper is to present an internet of things (IOT) based smart
the areas of irrigation to increase the quantity of crops
irrigation system to identify the dampness in the soil and to
control the watering of the crops automatically. The primary
yielded.
motivation behind the ventures to keep up soil dampness level As it is proven that efficient utilization of water through
so that there is no damage to the harvests. Soil dampness irrigation system has improved the growth of agriculture. But
sensors fundamentally utilized for estimating the gauge water spraying timing is depend on decisions such as time to
volumetric water content. Microcontroller are utilized for irrigate and what level to be irrigated. In the modern era,
getting the information from the water system sensors and watering the plants by traditional methods are replaced by
after that pass the information on the web utilizing GPRS
the automated devices. Some of the benefits of automated
module. The most intriguing highlights of this activities are
shrewd water system with brilliant control and around right
irrigations system includes lowering the water electricity bill,
choice dependent on the continuous field information. The prevents uneven watering and the plant gets required amount
controlling procedure of these tasks should be possible utilizing of water by avoiding wastage of water. On considering the
the remote sensors or framework associated with the Internet water scarcity and wasting the water by providing to the
and every one of the activities should be possible by combining agriculture land which is already with enough humidity is not
every one of the sensors, for example, WI-FI or THINGS the proper way of farming. So before automated irrigation,
SPEAK modules. Since much of the general population are not one should decide that the agriculture land of that location is
known with the smart techniques, the primary focus is to make in need of water and how much water to be irrigated for the
common layman to know and to use these techniques to field. To make an automation system, we are need of soil and
improve the productivity with adequate resources. plants water condition, plant growth and phonological stages,
availability of water, quality of water, weather conditions,
Keywords— Internet of Things (IOT), smart irrigation, soil and the operational eminence of the irrigation system.
moisture sensor, Water level sensor, Temperature, humidity Various research have been done and the most of automated
I. Introduction system are implemented commercially. But instead of
automation we have integrate with smart irrigation system in
Indian economy mainly focus of agriculture. A country which the wide scope to automate the complete irrigation
with consistent agriculture magnification can have the system on time.
sustainability in world economy. Country like India, has very
good climatic condition to grow sundry agriculture crops. In this paper, we are building a IOT building irrigation
But at the same time land and water are the more crucial system using ESP8266 Node multipoint control unit (MCU)
resources in India. Among these two, inadequacy in water module and digital temperature and humidity sensor
resources causes sizably voluminous impact on the yield of (DTH11) sensor. Also thing speak server is used to track the
agricultural crops. So, water scarcity has an astronomically land condition to receive the moisture level in the soil.
immense impact on victuals engenderment. Absence of water Sprinkler system is also an irrigation bases system, where the
makes the farmers to struggle to produce crops and this water flows through the tubes and water the plants according
makes a downfall to feed every human in the growing to their needs. The necessary water based on the land
population. According to International Water Management environmental conditions such as Moisture, temperature and
Institute(IWMI) states that the 70% of accumulated water humidity can be identified by the smart system and the
power will be switched on to provide enough water to the
plants. The automated systems which are already temperature and sultriness along with other factors can be of
implemented has the limitations like sending the alert paramount[8]. A traditional approach to quantify these
message or the SMS to the mobile but the data was not factors in an agricultural environment betokened individuals
stored permanently for further use. The aim of the paper is to manually taking quantifications and checking them at sundry
provide smart irrigation system with automated devices and times. This paper investigates a remote monitoring system
the store the data in the IOT cloud. Also Rain alarm and soil utilizing Zigbee. These nodes send data wirelessly to a
moisture detector circuit are also used to build the smart central server, which amasses the data, stores it and will
irrigation system. sanction it to be analyzed then exhibited as needed and can
additionally be sent to the client mobile. Anitha have
The paper has been planned as follows: Section 1 confer proposed home security system using IOT [9]. The system
about the need of irrigation system and the enhancement to will inform the owner about any unauthorized entry or
IOT cloud based smart irrigation system, whereas Section 2 whenever the door is opened by sending a notification to the
discuss about the literature review. Section 3 explains the user. After the user gets the notification, he can take the
materials and the research methodology proposed followed necessary actions. The security system will use a
by Section 4, which provides the experimental analysis. The microcontroller known as Arduino Uno to interface between
paper concludes with Section 5. the components, a magnetic Reed sensor to monitor the
status, a buzzer for sounding the alarm, and a WiFi module,
II. LITERATURE SURVEY ESP8266 to connect and communicate using the Internet.
The main advantages of such a system includes the ease of
A remote quantification and control system for green setting up, lower costs and low maintenance. Parameswaran
house predicated on Global System for Mobile GSM-SMS et.al has discussed on an irrigation system based on soil
was proposed by Jinling et.al which sends the status of the dampness[10]. Sultriness sensor is utilized to discover the
temperature and sultriness of the green house through SMS soil dampness and predicated on the solenoid valve. Along
and by remote machines, the contrivances are controlled to with the climatic conditions the crops should be water by
water the plants utilizing sensors and automated contrivances knowing the pH level of the water and the soil to yield the
[1]. Gautam and Reddy proposed an innovative GSM better crops. Monitor is utilized to show the pH level,
Bluetooth predicated remote controlled embedded system for moisture level and temperature.This will ameliorate the
irrigation [2]. Suresh et.al have proposed an architecture farming system for better productivity.
predicated on the capabilities of current and next-generation III. MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY
microcontrollers and their application requisites[3].
Microcontroller utilized for the system is promising that it A smart irrigation system is configured with various
can increment system life by decreasing the puissance eessential components as listed as follows.
utilization resulting from lower power consumption. • ARDUINO Uno
Kansara et.al has proposed astute irrigation system utilizing
IOT [4]. They proposed the technology of irrigation where • DHTll Temperature and Humidity Sensor
the human intervention can be minimized. if there is a
change in temperature and sultriness of the circumventions • Connecter wire
the sensors reads the vicissitude in temperature and sultriness • Bread Board, Laptop
and gives signal to interrupt the micro-controller to make the
contrivance on or off. Archana and Priya proposed a • Water level Sensor
microcontroller predicated system that supervises the water
• Soil Moisture Sensor.
level and the aread to be irrigated [5]. Sensors are present to
check the presence of water in the field. Once the field Some of the software requirements are ThingSpeak
desiccates sensors sense the requisite till the sensors is application, Arduino application, C Programming for
deactivated again. Anitha have proposed and garbage Arduino
monitoring system using IOT using sensor on lid of the
garbage bin that detects the level of garbage based on the
height of the bin [6]. 1. Arduino Uno
Uddin et.al proposed a model of variable rate automatic Arduino Uno is a PC equipment, that is open source
microcontroller predicated irrigation system [7]. Solar power which organizes the components by the programming
is utilized as only the source of potency to control the overall language and integrates the enterprise with the client group
system. Sensors are placed on the paddy field and these to produce microcontroller packs. These micro-controlled
sensors perpetually sense the waterlevel and give the packs are used as an intelligent agent which was
message to the farmer apprising the waterlevel. Without programmed to detect and to control working of the system
visiting the paddy fields, farmers can get the information in the real-life Sample Arduino Uno is shown in Fig. 1.
about the waterlevel. Predicated on the waterlevel, a farmer Generally, Arduino boards are inexpensive and used in
can control the motor by sending a message from his cellular various operating systems. It is easy and flexible for the
phone even from a remote place. However, if the waterlevel beginners. It is compatible with various languages such as
reaches to the hazard level; the motor will automatically start C++ and JAVA .
without attestation of farmer to ascertain the opportune
waterlevel in the site. Chavan and Karande had proposed to
develop a perspicacious wireless sensor network (WSN) for
an agricultural environment. Monitoring agricultural
environment for sundry factors such as soil moisture,
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A. Proposed system
The data is first collected from the different sensors here
Sensors like Moisture level of soil, Temperature of the area,
air moisture and Water Level are used. They are attached to
a breadboard which is intern connected to the Arduino
Board. The data from the board is sent to the Arduino IDE.
The programming language that is used runs instructions
which extracts the data and reflects. If the data is not valid
then the process ends is clearly shown in Fig. 9 and Fig. 10
Fig . 7 Bread Board
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valuable gadget since it robotizes and manages the watering sensor, humidity sensor, Soil moisture sensor and water level
with no guide intercession. The essential bundles for this sensor indicated as attributes as A1,A2,A3,A4 respectively.
mission are for agriculturists and plant specialists who do
now not have enough time to water plants. Table 1. SAMPLE DATASET
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29 March 07:02:3
2019 4 186 33 56 34 827
11 March 08:40:5
2019 2 158 28 65 50 545
07 March 07:10:1
2019 8 163 32 72 34 785
04 March 07:26:4 126
2019 7 129 33 58 33 2
19 March 08:12:4
2019 2 136 32 67 27 680
27 March 06:31:0 111 Fig.15 Soil moisture recorded by soil moisture sensor
2019 6 103 37 69 45 1
16 March 07:25:2 146 The water level sensor is used to record the water level
2019 3 199 31 73 47 9 from the various places of the fields of the Vellore districts.
08 March 06:42:4 This is clearly shown in the following Fig. 16.
2019 3 190 37 76 29 428
10 March 06:49:0
2019 4 189 40 65 30 916
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