DAYANANDA SAGAR ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT-560082

22MILE, B M KAVAL,UDAYAPURA, KANAKAPURA ROAD, BANGLORE-080-28432909

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING.

GSM BASED AUTOMATIC DRIP

IRRIGATION

A Technical seminar presentation on:

Under the Guidance of: FROM,

Mr. Shreyas B V & Jagdish Kumar D R
Mr. Jayateertha USN- 1dt17cv417.

Presentation date: 15-05-20

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INTRODUCTION:
• Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed
intervals. Irrigation helps to grow agricultural crops, maintain landscapes, and re-
vegetate disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of less than average
rainfall.
• In the field of agriculture, use of proper method of irrigation is important and it is
well known that irrigation by drip is very economical and efficient.
• Drip irrigation is a type of micro-irrigation system that has the potential to save
water and nutrients by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either
from above the soil surface or buried below the surface. The goal is to place water
directly into the root zone and minimize evaporation.
• Drip irrigation method is invented by Israelis in 1970s.
• The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed
to describe the protocols for second-generation digital cellular networks used by
mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets.

A typical Drip irrigation assembly.

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LITERATURE REVIEW :
Saravanan etal(2017)
Title: Gsm Based Low Cost Smart
Irrigation System with Wireless
Valve Control

Optimize the cost of the irrigation system and water

consumption for agricultural crop

Based on a wireless network, that are Internet of Things (IoT) radio

communications

Information from the field controller unit such as soil moisture, land humidity,
temperature is sent to the motor controller unit through Radio &
Communication.

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LITERATURE REVIEW :
Yuthika etal(2017)
Title: Intelligent IoT Based
Automated Irrigation System
Gupta etal (2014)
Title: Precession Agriculture for Drip
Irrigation Using Microcontroller and
GSM Technology

For drip irrigation a small over

Sensor based paddy growth head water tank in used which
monitoring system been supply water to the drip
developed by researchers system.
Kait towards improving the
rice productivity or yield.
The simple and low cost gadget
that has been work upon, not only
control the starting and stopping of
Gathering the appropriate motor by sending a simple SMS
data and accordingly through a GSM mobile but also
transmitted to the Base gets the return SMS showing level
station using multi hop of water in overhead tank.
routing

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MATERIALS USED:
 The components of micro controller based drip irrigation system are as follows:

 Pump: A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or

sometimes slurries, by mechanical action.

 Water Filter: Water filtration is a general term that refers to any system or
process that is used to filter out particles and pollutants from water.
 Flow Meter: A flow meter is a device used to measure the volume or mass of a
gas or liquid.
 Control Valve: A control valve is a valve used to control fluid flow by varying
the size of the flow passage as directed by a signal from a controller.
 Chemical Injection Unit: They are specially designed and manufactured
operate with specific fluid handling requirements.

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MATERIALS USED:
• Drip lines with Emitters: Drip emitters are the heart of any drip irrigation system.

• Moisture and Temperature Sensors: This sensor is prepared for applications

that require precise monitoring over moisture and temperature conditions.
• Micro controller Unit (The brain of the system):A micro controller unit is small
computer on a single metal-0xide-semiconducter(MOS) integrated circuit chip.

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METHODOLOGY :
 The automated control system consists of moisture sensors, temperature sensors,
Signal conditioning circuit, Digital to analogy converter, LCD Module, Relay
driver, solenoid control valves, etc.
 The important parameters to be measured for automation of irrigation system are
soil moisture and temperature.
 The entire field is first divided in two small sections such that each section should
contain one moisture sensor and a temperature sensor.
 These sensors are buried in the ground at required depth.
 Once the soil has reached desired moisture level the sensors send a signal to the
micro controller to turn off the relays, which control the valves.
 The signal send by the sensor is boosted unto the required level by corresponding
amplifier stages. Then the amplified signal is fed to A/D converters of desired
resolution to obtain digital form of sensed input for microcontroller use.

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 A Chemical injection unit is used to mix required amount of fertilizers, pesticides,
and nutrients with water, whenever required.
 Varying speed of pump motor can control pressure of water.
 It can be obtained with the help of PWM output of microcontroller unit. A flow
meter is attached for analysis of total water consumed.
 The required readings can be transferred to the Centralized Computer for further
 analytical studies, through the serial port present on microcontroller unit.
 While applying the automation on large fields more than one such microcontroller
units can be interfaced to the Centralized Computer the microcontroller unit has in-
built timer in it, which operates parallel to sensor system.
 In case of sensor failure the timer turns off the valves after a threshold level of
time, which may prevent the further disaster.
 The microcontroller unit may warn the pump failure or insufficient amount of water
input with the help of flow meter.

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Flow diagram of GSM based automatic drip irrigation
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APPLICATIONS, ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES:
APPLICATIONS:
 For a big farm land with horticulture activity the solution will be an automated
system .
 Water contained in the soil moisture.
 And it is very important for plant growth.
 Water soluble fertilizer can be also applied without any wastage by this drip
irrigation system.
ADVANTAGES:
 Are relatively simple to design and install
 This is very useful to all climatic conditions any it is economic friendly.
 This makes increase in productivity and reduces water consumption.
 This is safest and no manpower is required and also error free.
 Permit other yard and garden work to continue when irrigation is taking place, as
only the immediate plant areas are wet.
 Reduce soil erosion and nutrient leaching.
 Reduce the chance of plant disease by keeping foliage dry.
 Require smaller water sources, for example, less than half of the water needed for a
sprinkler system.

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APPLICATIONS, ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES:
DISADVANTAGES:
 This is only applicable for large size farms.
 Equipment is costlier.
 Require frequent maintenance for efficient operation.
 Limited life.

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CASE STUDY:
 As many farms are installed with drip systems under Andhra Pradesh Micro
Irrigation Project (APMIP) in Mangalagiri and Thullur mandals, some of the
villages namely Mandadam, Venkatapalem, Lingayapalem, Rayapudi from the
Thullur mandal and another three villages namely Nuthakki, kaza, Needamarru
from Mangalagiri were selected in Guntur District for present study.
 Collection of Data on the Performance of Drip Systems in the Study Area:
The performance of the drip irrigation systems installed in various farmers fields in
the selected villages were evaluated.
 Evaluation of Pressure Variation:
As per the standard practice of drip irrigation system a pressure variation of 20% is
allowed in the Indian conditions for the better performance of the systems.
 Evaluation of Discharge Variation:
As per the standard practice, a variation of 8-10 % may be allowed in the discharge
from the inlet to the end plug of the lateral. To ascertain the same, the discharges of
the emitters a randomly selected lateral at three locations i.e., at the inlet, middle
and near end plug were measured.

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CASE STUDY:
 Performance Evaluation of Drip Irrigation Systems:
The literature provides the information that a pressure drop 20% in the lateral
indicates the best performance of the system and a variation of 20% to 40% is
acceptable for the operation of the system. The variation of 10% in the rated
discharge is acceptable for a drip system.
 The results of the study reveal that out of the ten fields inspected, two fields proved
the best with pressure variation between 12% and 20% (F3 and F2). The other
seven fields except F8 are in the acceptable range with the pressure drop of 20 to
40%.

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DISSCUSSION :
 Agricultural monitoring is very much needed to reduce much of human labor and
at the same time minimize on water usage.
 There is a vital need for a system that makes the agricultural process easier and
burden free from the farmer’s side.
 To save farmer’s effort, water and time has been the most important consideration.
 Hence systems are required to be designs to provide this ability efficiently using
wireless sensor networking, sprinkler irrigation, GSM, SMS technology, with
readily available mobile phone.
 The Microcontroller based drip irrigation system proves to be a real time feedback
control system which monitors and controls all the activities of drip irrigation
system efficiently.
 Using this system, one can save manpower, water to improve production and
ultimately profit.

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REFERENCE :
 Saravanan Ragava, Ramesh Thangavel, “Gsm Based Low Cost Smart Irrigation

System with Wireless Valve Control”, 2017.

 Yuthika Shekhar, Ekta Dagur, Sourabh Mishra, “Intelligent IoT Based Automated

Irrigation System” , 2017.

 KISAN AGRO MOBILE AUTO SWITCH, 2017.

 Dr. Deepak Gupta, Amit Kushwaha , Mohammad Sikander, Shushma Trivedi

,“Precession Agriculture for Drip Irrigation Using Microcontroller and GSM

Technology” , 2014.

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THANK YOU.

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