Solar powered

Moisture
monitoring
Working Autonomously over IoT
Key
Technologies
 Photovoltaics
 Internet Of things
 Sensor Networks
 Embedded Systems 2
 Need Of Automation in Agriculture

» Agriculture demands increase

» According to UN, the world agricultural demands will
be 70% higher in 2020
» Less agricultural workforce due to increase in literacy.

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 Types

Two categories
of solutions: Wired System
Fully wireless
system

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Wired System
Moisture sensor • Inserted into the soil

Outputs an Analog measurement of

amount of moisture in the soil
Moisture Sensor Microcontroller

CONTROL BUS
STM8S003F
3P6

Sensing Unit
Block Diagram
Placing sensors
• The sensing units are placed in rows
and columns in the field
Placing sensors in the field

• The Sensing units are placed in a rows

and columns
• A specific distance maintained between
the sensors

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Sensor connection Topology

• The sensing units are connected in a bus

topology termed as data bus

• A single wire runs which functions as the DATA BUS

data bus through the whole field

1 3 4 5
2

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Data Transmission

Sensor Moisture
Sensor no.
no.
Value
DATA BUS
1 211
Data Packet

1 3
4 5
2

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Data Transmission
Sensor Moisture
Sensor no.
no.
Value

2 221
Data Packet
DATA BUS

1 3
4 5
2

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The whole system

• All the sensors are connected to the bus which goes through the farm in a zig zag manner
END POINT

Embedded IOT Server

System

FARM
MPPT
charger
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DATA BUS Battery
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Backup
START POINT

Smartphone
Monitors the data from
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 Working

» The sensors one by one send data to the bus

synchronously
» The microcontroller makes sure that the data from
other does not collide by using CSMA technique.
» The data is streamed to the remote server connected
through the wireless IoT section
» The farmer can access the data and view a map of the
farm moisture
» The whole thing is powered on solar and hence need
no extra electricity source and cuts down the electricity
bill

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 Price advantage

» Use of wire as a communication the cost is cut down

» The microcontroller used in each sensing unit is
STM8S003F3P6 which costs $0.17 per unit hence
affordable to the farmer

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 Price advantage

» Use of wire as a communication the cost is cut down

» The microcontroller used in each sensing unit is
STM8S003F3P6 which costs $0.17 per unit hence
affordable to the farmer

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Let’s Make Farming efficient and productive!

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Thank You
Parth Vibhandik
+91 7715998308
Parthvibhandik-etrx@atharvacoe.ac.in