Construction of Solar Automated Water Irrigation system controlled by Mobile messaging

Abstract

The traditional irrigation system involves most manual labor intensive task. Farmers usually work on large portions of land to grow different types of crops. It is not always possible for one person to be able to keep track of entire farm land about crop and the soil moisture due to health problems, age and unavailability of a person. To overcome this problem a solution is proposed to automate the irrigation system using Arduino and monitoring the farm field by using photos captured by the camera. Depending upon the level of soil moisture content, the system supplies the water to a farm field by sensing the soil moisture. The process of producing appropriate amount of water to plants avoids some of situation like mud cracks, plant disease etc. When the water level reaches the threshold value it automatically stops, sends the notification of a farm field to the farmers. This helps in irrigating the field even during nighttime, so does not require the farmer to switch on motor manually. Ultimately a farmer can monitor the condition of farm field from anywhere.