SMART IRRIGATION SYTEM USING ARDUINO

Pimpri Chinchwad Education Trust’s

PIMPRI CHINCHWAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING NIGDI, PUNE-44
DEPARTMENT OF E&TC

SUB: Integrated Circuits

Year & Branch: S.E. (E& TC)
2019-20

MINI-PROJECT REPORT

ON

“SMART IRRIGATION SYSTEM USING ARDUINO”

By
Name of the student Roll No
Chaudhari Bhavesh S. DSEETA168
Shivprasad Bulbule DSEETA176
Gangurde Harshal S. SEETA132
Deshpande Abhijeet P. SEETA127

Mrs. S Bhandarkar Dr. M.T. Kolte

Course Faculty HOD(E&TC)

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OBJECTIVES OF PROJECT :-

The objectives of the project are to design a smart drip irrigation system to water plants with
the use of devices like Arduino microcontrollers. The Arduino is programmed by using C
programming language for automation purpose. This system also contributes with an efficient
and fairly cheap automation irrigation system. System once installed has no maintenance cost
and is easy to use.

Nowadays, some systems use technology to reduce the number of workers and to reduce the
time required to water the plants. With such system, the control is made easy and many of the
resource utilization is improved. Water is one of these resources which is used excessively for
irrigation. Mass irrigation is the method which is used to water the plant. This method
represents massive losses since the amount of water given exceeds the plants’ needs. This
system reduces the water wastage by allowing water to be supplied to the plant only when
needed.

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ABSTRACT :-

With the advancement of automation technology, life is getting simpler and easier in all
aspects. In today’s world Automatic systems are being preferred over manual system.
Automatic system is a growing system of everyday object from industrial machine to consumer
goods that can complete tasks while you are busy with other activities. India's population is
reached beyond 1.2 billion and the population rate is increasing day by day then after 25-30
years there will be serious problem of food, so the development of agriculture is necessary.
Today, the farmers are suffering from the lack of rains and scarcity of water. The main objective
of this projenct is to provide an automatic irrigation system thereby saving time, money &
power of the farmer. The traditional farmland irrigation techniques require manual
intervention. With the automated technology of irrigation the human intervention can be
minimized. Whenever there is a change in moisture level in soil the moisture sensor senses the
change in moisture level and takes acyion accordingly with the help of microcontroller.

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CIRCUIT DIAGRAM :-

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WORKING :-

Working of Smart Irrigation System is quite simple. First of all, it is a completely automated
system and there is no need of manpower to control the system. Arduino is used for controlling
the whole process The soil moisture sensor module used here have two output pins ( Digital
output and Analog output ). The digital pin gives an active low output when the soil is wet.
Here we are using the analog output from the module by connecting it to one of the analog pins
of Arduino. While using the analog output the wet detection value can be set/adjusted within
the program itself.

A fixed adequate value of moisture content is fed inside the program.The Arduino reads the
moisture of the soil from soil and compares it with the preset value of soil moisture, if the
observed value from soil sensor is less than preset value than the system comes to know about
the scarcity of water content in soil and turns on the motor to supply water to the plant.

An LED is connected to the 2nd pin of Arduino to show the moisture status, the LED glows
when the moisture content is sufficient enough And the 4 th pin links to the base of a BC547
transistor which in turn drives the 12 V DC motor.

A 16*2 LCD is connected in 4 bit mode. JHD162A is the LCD module used here. JHD162A
is a 16×2 LCD module based on the HD44780 driver from Hitachi. The JHD162A has 16 pins
and can be operated in 4-bit mode (using only 4 data lines) or 8-bit mode (using all 8 data
lines). Here we are using the LCD module in 4-bit mode. Control pin RS, RW and En are
directly connected to Arduino pin 13, GND and 12. And data pin D4-D7 is connected to 11,
10, 9 and 8 of Arduino. An LCD is basically used for displaying the operations that are being
performed by Arduino.

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ADVANTAGES :-

 The system reduces human effort of turning on and off the water pump while watering
the plants.
 The system is cost effective and easy to implement.
 Reduces wastage of water.
 Most efficient during Summer days as soil dries frequently due to high temperature.

DISADVANTAGES :-

 Malfunction in soil sensor can lead to failure of whole system.

 The system should always be turned “ON” otherwise, plant will not be get water.

APPLICATIONS :-

 In gardens for watering flowers.

 Plant Nurseries.
 Farms
 The system can be also used for watering plants in specified proportion with the help
of microcontroller in Botanical garden.

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COST :-

Sr No. Component Cost

1 Arduino 400/-
2 Soil Moisture Sensor 150/-
3 LCD 100/-
4 DC Motor Pump (12 V) 75/-
5 Resistors, Transistors, Diode 20/-
Total 745/-

References :-

 Bennis, H. Fouchal, O. Zytoune, D. Aboutajdine, “Drip Irrigation System using

Wireless Sensor Networks” Proceedings of the Federated Conference on Computer
Science and Information Systems, ACSIS, Vol. 5, 2015.
 Joaquín Gutiérrez, Juan Francisco Villa-Medina, Alejandra Nieto-Garibay, and
Miguel Ángel Porta- Gándara, “Automated Irrigation System Using a Wireless Sensor
Network and GPRS Module,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement, vol. 63, no. 1, January 2014.
 Sangamesh Malge, Kalyani Bhole, “Novel, Low cost Remotely operated smart
Irrigation system" 2015 International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and
Control (ICIC) College of Engineering Pune, India. May 28-30, 2015
 Nikhil Agrawal, Smita Singhal, “Smart Drip Irrigation System using Raspberry pi and
Arduino” International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation
(ICCCA2015) .

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