Smart irrigation system

Project Title

Smart irrigation system

Project Area of Specialization Internet of ThingsProject Summary

To improve the agricultural yield with fewer resources and labor efforts, substantial innovations have been made throughout the human history. We went from digging canals for irrigation to electricity and other fuels powered water pumps. We started using automatic irrigation alongside traditional farming to increase the productivity. Now, if we transform our manual irrigation to IOT based smart irrigation, it will help us gaining our agricultural goals as a nation and individual as well. It’s not only enhancing the agriculture production but also making it cost-effective and reducing wastage. In this project the IoT devices and communication techniques associated with wireless sensors encountered in agriculture applications are utilized to improve agriculture goals. Various types of sensors are available for specific agriculture application, like soil, crop status, irrigation, temperature and humidity. The system proposed will make it easy for farmers to control their farms conditions remotely. They will not have to present at all sites to take care of their farmhouses; the technology will do this task on its own using a set of parameters set by the farmer. The ultimate goal of the project is to build an IoT based smart irrigation system that will play its role in the agriculture fields, that is our pride and ace for the economy.

Project Objectives

The goal of the project is to facilitate the farmers in terms of time, cost, and human effort and automate their irrigation system. The proposed system would set new trends for farming in a controlled environment using IoT. Following are the main objectives:

Data acquisition of IoT sensors. Automation of irrigation. Better utilization of resources.

The goal of the project is to facilitate the farmers in terms of time, cost, and human effort and automate their irrigation system. The proposed system would set new trends for farming in a controlled environment using IoT. Following are the main objectives:

Data acquisition of IoT sensors. Automation of irrigation.

Better utilization of resources.

Project Implementation Method

To develop a proof of concept of a real time IoT based irrigation system, a complete working system will be implemented using a small scale of irrigation prototype environment. In the experiment setup the real-time sensors and actuators are deployed in the soil fields to monitor, control and visualized the environment changes.

Furthermore, from development point of view our project go through a number of iterations before anything is going to be final. Feedback is gathered and implemented continually and in all, it is a much more dynamic process where everyone is working together towards one goal. Therefore, we are using Agile software development methodology for IoT based Smart Irrigation System.

To develop a proof of concept of a real time IoT based irrigation system, a complete working system will be implemented using a small scale of irrigation prototype environment. In the experiment setup the real-time sensors and actuators are deployed in the soil fields to monitor, control and visualized the environment changes.

Furthermore, from development point of view our project go through a number of iterations before anything is going to be final. Feedback is gathered and implemented continually and in all, it is a much more dynamic process where everyone is working together towards one goal. Therefore, we are using Agile software development methodology for IoT based Smart Irrigation System.

Benefits of the Project

The IoT Based Smart Irrigation System will be helping farmers in various ways. Following are the main benefits of our proposed system, in detail:

Less human effort

Normally farmer have to go to farm house thrice a day just to ensure that everything going fine. This can require extra human efforts if there are several sites. Proposed system will help in monitoring sites without involvement of human effort and notify farmer about the changes or action required. It will definitely save you extra efforts, which can be utilize to do more productive things. So, our system makes it less effort for the farmer to manage water system in his farm.

Remotely Controlled environment

Most importantly, user will not have to present all time at farm to control the environment. He can do it remotely through our mobile app. All it needs for him to control the environment from wherever he is, is just a network and our app installed

Decrease in the cost of production

As the farmer is controlling environment remotely. He will be keen enough to keep an eye of resources he is putting in. Say, he is irrigating the field and he has to go for some urgent work. Water pump will keep running and causing him pay extra charges on electricity bill, just because he was not at field. So, farmer can cut down the cost of production but just if he has some time to check on our user-friendly application.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The technical details of proposes system are as follows.

1. Setting up sensors

Sensors will be installed, so they can make respective readings and give it to the required module.

1. Data gathering through sensors

Data will be gathered continuously through sensors and user will be viewing it live on his mobile  app. Data gathered from sensors will also be stored in Database for decision making, graphs plotting and for performing different operations at them.

1. Actuators

Along with the different sensors, Actuators will also be installed in the farm that will take different actions on run time, depending upon the commands received by the user or from the sensors and will adjust the overall environment of the farm in between the given thresholds.

1. Monitoring module

There will be a monitoring module to monitor the environment. This module will be responsible for showing current environment of farm in our mobile app.

1. IOT data storage management

IOT data storage management so we can get the data from IOT system.

1. Database

Data will also be stored in Database for decision making, graphs plotting and for performing different operations at them.

1. Decision making module

After gathering data from sensors, There will be a Decision making module to make the decision on the bases of the given information. This module will be responsible for opening the window or any other particular action through the actuators.

1. Control unit management

The control unit will manage the flow of information..

1. Mobile Application

Mobile application will be used to integrate the system as well as to control the environment through a some taps on their mobile screen. App will contain many screens, where user can view the current environment and status of actuators and summary etc. User will also be able to take action according to the current environment of the farm, ‘manually’, ‘scheduled’ or ‘automatic’ through our mobile app , so user can auto on off the water pump for irrigation.

Final Deliverable of the Project Hardware SystemCore Industry ITOther Industries Energy Core Technology Internet of Things (IoT)Other Technologies OthersSustainable Development Goals Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources

To develop a proof of concept of a real time IoT based irrigation system, a complete working system will be implemented using a small scale of irrigation prototype environment. In the experiment setup the real-time sensors and actuators are deployed in the soil fields to monitor, control and visualized the environment changes.

Furthermore, from development point of view our project go through a number of iterations before anything is going to be final. Feedback is gathered and implemented continually and in all, it is a much more dynamic process where everyone is working together towards one goal. Therefore, we are using Agile software development methodology for IoT based Smart Irrigation System.