MAJOR PROJECTAUTOMATED PLANT WATERING SYSTEM

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is indeed a privilege and opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to all those who have helped me in completing this project.

I would really like to thank and acknowledge my mentor Mrs. Hema N for her help and support throughout the semester in the making of the project. Her esteemed individual guidance and helpful suggestions for improving the presentation of this project are certainly invaluable. I would further like to express my sense of indebtedness to her for redressing errors in the project whenever I was unable to.

I am especially grateful to Dr. Saurabh Raina and Mr. Pawan Upadhyay for taking out time to evaluate my project.

Toshahnvie Mangal10103651

Mayank Kumar Kumbhaj10103539

THE SYSTEM TAKES CARE OF THE MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE SOIL AND WATERS IT

ACCORDINGLY

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IT PROVIDES WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FOR THE EASE OF USE

INTRODUCTION

•In the world of advance electronics, life of human beings should be simpler. Hence to make life more simpler and convenient, we have made “AUTOMATED WATERING SYSTEM•A model of controlling irrigation facilities to help millions of people. This model uses sensor with microcontroller to make a smart switching mechanism of Water using sensors from any part of field by sensing the moisture present in the soil.

COMPONENTS REQUIRED

1 Arduino board1 serial USB cableZigbee Module1 breadboard1 PCBTransistorDiodeResistances(10k,1k)Connecting wires1 moisture sensor1 temperature sensor

Start

If moisture of the soil is less than a specific value

ARDUINO PROCESSES

Solenoid valve starts

Stop

FLOW CHART

ARDUINO BOARD

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring ) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing ). It has an ATmega AT328 microcontroller that has a pre-installed bootloader, so one can download code to the board using only a USB-serial connection. Arduino projects can be stand-alone or they can communicate with software running on a computer.

Merits

1) Highly sensitive, reliable, low cost project.2) Works according to the soil condition.3) Complete elimination of the man power.4) System can be switched into manual mode when required.

1) Irrigation in fields.2) Irrigation in Garden, Parks.3) Very useful for people who do not have time to water their plants because of busy life schedule.4)The project is very economical in terms of cost and power

Significance of the project

MOISTURE SENSOR

The general idea is that we want two probes -- metal rods, kept about equal distance apart, that we can bury in the soil. We will need an electrically non-conductive material to help keep the rods in their fixed position. And we will also want the probes to be insulated everywhere except where we want to take a reading.It uses the two probes to pass current through the soil, and then we read that resistance to get the moisture level. More water makes the soil conduct electricity more easily (less resistance), while dry soil conducts electricity more poorly (more resistance).

Moisture Sensor Working

Conclusion

In present days especially farmers are facing major problemsin watering their agriculture fields, it’s because they have noproper idea about when the power is available so that theycan pump water. Even after then they need to wait until thefield is properly watered, which makes them to stop doing other activities.Here is an idea which helps not only farmers even forwatering the gardens also, which senses the soil moistureand switches the valve automatically when the power is ON.

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