Special Issue - 2018 International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT)

ISSN: 2278-0181
ETCAN - 2018 Conference Proceedings

Smart Irrigation System Using Arduino and

Android
Santhiya. P* Monisha. J***
*Assistant Professor, ***UG Scholar,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Paavai Engineering College, Namakkal. Paavai Engineering College, Namakkal

Lakshmitha. G** Akshaya. T****

**UG Scholar, ****UG Scholar,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Paavai Engineering College, Namakkal Paavai Engineering College,Namakkal

Abstract:- Water is the most important resource for plants. But venting can prevent the condensation on the plants and the
during summers, most people are too lazy to water the plants greenhouse structure. The use of cooling systems during the
every day. To overcome this issue smart irrigation system using warm summer months increases the greenhouse air humidity.
arduino and android is used. The existing system uses pc and All through periods with warm and humid outdoor
cloud computing to store the data which is reads by sensors and
conditions, the humidity control inside the greenhouse can be
the drip is controlled. The proposed system is to ON/OFF the
drip using bluetooth wherever we go. Using this system reduces a challenge.
data storage devices. The Microcontroller Arduino is used to Greenhouses to be found in dry, dessert environments benefit
control this System and Android is connected to controller and greatly from evaporative cooling systems because large
it controls the drip. The sensors are to take values from amounts of water can be evaporated into the incoming air,
surroundings and store it in a controller. According to this value resulting in significant temperature drops. Since the relative
the drip can be ON/OFF. It is controlled manually and usage of humidity alone does not tell us anything about the absolute
storage device is reduced and no network problem will occur. water holding capacity of air, a different measurement is
sometime used to describe the absolute moisture status of the
Keywords: Embeddedsystem ,Bluetooth, Androidapp, Sensors, Lcd
soil. The vapor pressure deficit is a measure of the difference
between the amount of moisture the air contains at a given
I. INTRODUCTION moment and the amount of moisture it can hold at that
Agriculture is the important construction of critical food crop. temperature when the air would be saturated.
Agriculture is represent as manufacture, dispensation, The strain discrepancy measurement can tell us how easy it is
encouragement and division rural products. Agriculture play for plants to transpire: higher values stimulate transpiration
a important role in the entire life of a given nation. (but too high can cause wilting), and lower values inhibit
Agriculture is the spine of financial system of a given transpiration and can lead to condensation on leaf and
country. In this wireless sensor networks, it is a self greenhouse surfaces.
configuring network of small sensor nodes communicating
among themselves using broadcasting signal, and deploy in II. LITERATURE SURVEY
capacity to logic, observe and realize the purpose world. Precision agriculture can be defined as the art and science of
The artificial application of water to the land or soil is using advanced technology to enhance crop production.
irrigation. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural [1]This paper introduces Wireless sensor network as a major
crops, maintenance of landscapes, and re vegetation of technology that drives the development of precision
disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate agriculture. The science and engineering questions associated
rainfall. The water flow through the on the side lines and with precision agriculture center around increasing the
endually ends at the irrigation emitter (drip) or sprinkler efficiency to prosper in a sustainable manner. Increases in
heads when a zone comes. Many sprinklers have pipe thread agricultural efficiency will stem from networking sensors to
inlets on the bottom of them which allow a fitting and the elucidate important spatiotemporal patterns and integrating
pipe to be attached to them. Once there is no water pressure their data streams so as to not only display or record
in the lateral line, the sprinkler head will retract back into the information, but to actuate human and autonomous responses.
ground. Emitters are usually laid on the soil surface or buried The concept of precision agriculture has been around for
in a few inches to reduce evaporation losses. some time now. Blackmore et al., in 1994 defined it as a
The plants can come to light a lot of water, resulting in an comprehensive system designed to optimize agricultural
increase in the humidity of the greenhouse air. A high relative production by carefully tailoring soil and crop management to
humidity (above 80-85%) should be avoided because it can correspond to the unique condition found in each field while
increase the incidence of disease and reduce plant maintaining environmental quality. In California, Beckwith et
transpiration. Sufficient venting or successive heating and al designed deployed and analyzed output of a large scale
implementation of a wireless sensor network in a vineyard .

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65 motes with a maximum of 8 hops were deployed in a polymerchemical routes. Second, MIPs can be stored for long
planned area where no neighbor discovery features were time scales and maintain their receptor properties in wide
implemented and a table driven protocol was used rather than ranges of temperature, pH, and ionic strength. These sensors
a self organizing network. Data was recorded every five have already been proven to be extremely suited for the
minutes with a grid of sensor nodes each separated 15m from detection of various low molecular weight targets such as
the other. [2]This paper describes about the Lofar Agro histamine, L-nicotine and adenine. The newly developed
project, that is a study of precision agriculture that focuses on system is demonstrated using a MIP-based histamine sensor.
tailored management of a crop. This involves monitoring soil, The greenhouse industry is the fastest growing sector
crop and climate conditions in a field, generalizing the result worldwide. [4]In this paper greenhouse separates the crop
and providing a decision support system (DSS) for treatments from the environment, This enables the production of
or taking differential action such as real time variation of crops that otherwise could not be produced at that specific
fertilizer or pesticide application. The objective of this paper location. The greenhouse enclosure permits the
is to report the design, construction, and testing of a manipulation of the crop environment. This asset allows
distributed infield WSN, a remote monitoring control, grid the farmer to steer the cultivation in a desirable direction.
topologies. It leads to higher crop yield, prolonged production period,
Biomimetic sensors offer huge potential in the development better quality, and less use of protective chemicals. The
of point-of-care systems and home-diagnostics applications. crop yield and quality can be influenced by operating the
[3]In this paper Biological relevant molecules in an analyte adjustable components of greenhouse. [5]In this paper crop
can bind to a highly specific artificial bio-recognition layer, and resource management in greenhouse is indispensable
while this binding event is transduced to a measurable signal. to adjust and control variables with are mote controlling
The development of different types of these sensors suited for system via SMS by using the GSM - SMS. This is because
the detection of a wide range of target molecules is a popular it is almost difficult for human being to manipulate and be
field of research. A commercial biomimetic sensor market is present every day near the system. Indeed, remote
almost nonexistent, though examples can be found of communication systems are a major component of the
commercially available biosensing devices, e.g. the portable policy of modernization and technology transfer, due to
glucose sensor, which is already used for decades by diabetes the increasing development of mobile communications.
patients, and digital pregnancy tests. Electrochemical The use of mobile phones or handsets has grown
impedance spectroscopy is a popular readout technique exponentially over the years. Today, growth is coming
commonly used for different types of sensors. Within these from global expansion and services. A new surge of
sensors the impedimetric changes in the sensor/electrolyte growth will come through new technology (Wireless),
interface upon target molecule binding are usually monitored Using GSM it is possible to control and monitor systems
using bulky and expensive labbased measurement equipment. from a long Distance. The primary aim of this paper is to
The home-diagnostics market could benefit greatly from propose the concept of Development of a Low-Cost GSM
compact, easy-to-use devices that are suited for the readout of SMS- Based Remote Measurement and Control system for
a wide range of sensors. Previous research resulted in the Greenhouse using the combination of a ARM Controller
development of miniaturized impedimetric measurement and a GSM communications module & Zigbee linked by a
equipment incorporating touch-screen technology and serial communications port. Using this various Parameter
numerous communication protocols . Although this device is values could be efficiently understands from the remote
specifically designed for accurate biosensor readout while location and whenever it crosses the set limit, the ARM
maintaining a level of user-friendliness, it is not fine-tuned processor will send an SMS to a concerned authority(s)
for home-monitoring applications. Some examples can mobile phone. The concerned authority(s) can control the
already be found of smartphones apps used in home system through the mobile phone by sending Message to
diagnostics, e.g. for glucose level sensing and in heart rate the System. The benefits of this paper are:
monitoring applications. A novel way of impedimetric  Flexibility / modularity in control.
readout of biomimetic sensors via smartphones and tablet  Extremely low cost device adapted for different
PCs is presented. On-board audio hardware is used for applications.
generating and reading signals, minimizing the required  Scalable, Robust and Reliable.
external hardware. A custom-made biosensor test strip can be  Efficient and cheap means of communication
inserted in the system. Small amounts of analyte can be by use of SMS.
placed on the strip, after which sensor response can be
monitored. An app running on the device allows for intuitive Ideal for monitoring and control critical plant on
control and graphical display of biosensor response. Device unmanned sites.
performance is verified using passive components and a
biosensor example. Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP)
sensors are a commonly used type of biomimetic sensors. The
sensors are based on polymers with imprinted nano-cavities
that form preferential binding sites for the desired target
molecule. Using these sensors as synthetic receptors offers
two main benefits in addition to specific recognition. First,
MIPs can be synthesized at a rather low cost via established

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III. EXISTING SYSTEM IV. PROPOSED SYSTEM

Hardware Components
• Arduino Microcontroller
• Bluetooth
Water management system is microcontroller based and web • Water pump Motor
application using the concept of cloud and data mining is • Power supply
used to monitor and control the water management system 1. Transformer
from remote location. Whole system is in WSN 2. Bridge rectifier (Diodes)
infrastructure. Water management is done through sensor 3. Voltage Regulator
reading from farm. Web application provide easy monitor 4. Capacitor
and control mechanism to farmer. Graph generated in web 5. Resistor
application make easy analysis. Cloud computing is a 6. LED
technique in which a large number of computers connected • LCD
through a real-time communication network. • Sensors
In this system sensor senses the data and sends the reading to Software Components
the micro-controller. Then micro-controller sends those • Arduino IDE
reading to the farm pc through serial communication. Then • Android app
these readings get stored in the database that is connected to
farm pc in which we use data mining concept. These readings Working
will be displayed on the android phone and pc. The mobile Arduino Microcontroller is used to control the system. The
and pc is connected to the database through cloud. sensor reads the surrounding value and store it in a controller.
In this system we will be including data mining concept for If the reading of sensor is less than the threshold value then
the prediction of future outcomes. Data mining concept we can start the drip using a android app through a bluetooth.
examine the large pre-existing data in order to produce the The LCD is used to display the value of sensors. According
new information. We will be including the cloud computing to the value we can operate the application.
concept for the communication between the pc and mobile.
Cloud computing is a technique in which a large number of Power supply
computers connected through a real-time communication
network.

Disadvantage
Sometimes network problem will occurred. It collects data
from all WSN network and take decision if threshold cross of
any sensor unit.

The power supply circuit is common for all the home

supplies. The 230V AC is get from the transformer and it is
reduced to 12V AC of power by using the Step down
transformer. Then it rectifies the 12V AC as a 12V DC and
then the noise is reduced by using a capacitor. Then the 12V
is reduced to 5V using Regulator.

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Arduino
The Arduino is a microcontroller board. It is used to operate a FLOW CHART
Sensors, LCD, Bluetooth and also storage devices.
• Microcontroller UNO
• Operating Voltage 5V

Input/output pins
• Digital 0-13 ( 6 pins are PWM pins) PWM: 3, 5, 6,
9, 10, and 11.
• Analog 0-5v
• It comes with an open supply hardware feature that
permits users to develop their own kit
• The software of the Arduino is well-suited with all
kinds of operating systems like Linux, Windows,
and Macintosh, etc.
Sensors
• Temperature sensor
• Humidity sensor
• Water level sensor
Temperature sensor (LM35) :The temperature reads the
temperature values from the surroundings and display it in
LCD.
Humidity Sensor: This sensor reads the moisture content of
the land(especially in soil).
Water Level Sensor: This sensor reads the level of water
and controls drip ON/OFF.
Android App
Android app is connected to the Arduino using a Bluetooth
HC-05.It is used to operate drip to ON/OFF.

V. CONCLUSION
In this irrigation system the drip is ON/OFF using a bluetooth
module. In our system the data storage device is reduced to
control a drip and reduced a man power. The sensors are used
to taken the surrounding value and store it in a Controller.
The controller is used to operate a bluetooth. It helps to
operate a wherever to control the drip. It reduce the time.

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