"Smart Irrigation System Using Internet of Things": Under The Guidance of
"Smart Irrigation System Using Internet of Things": Under The Guidance of
INTERNET OF THINGS”
➢ Karan kansara (2015) proposed an automated irrigation system where the humidity
and temperature sensors are used to sense the soil conditions and based on that
microcontroller will control the water flow. Farmer will be intimated through GSM.
This system doesn’t monitor the nutrient content in the soil [1].
➢ Archana and Priya (2016) proposed a paper in which the humidity and soil moisture
sensors are placed in the root zone of the plant. Based on the sensed values the
microcontroller is used to control the supply of water to the field. This system doesn’t
intimate the farmer about the field status [2].
➢ Sonali D.Gainwar and Dinesh V. Rojatkar (2015) proposed a paper in which soil
parameters such as humidity, moisture and temperature are measured for getting high
yield from soil. This system is fully automated which turns the motor pump ON/OFF
as per the level of moisture in the soil. The current field status is not intimated to the
farmer[3].
➢ S.Reshma and B.A.Sarath (2016) proposed an IOT based automatic irrigation system
using wireless sensor networks in which various sensors are used to measure the soil
parameters. This system provides a web interface to the user to monitor and control
the system remotely. Weather monitoring is not done in this system[4].
➢ Jayveer singh (2015) :The Arduino board and soil moisture sensor based irrigation
system proves to be a real time response control system which monitors and wheel all
the activities of irrigation system. The present system is a model to modernize the
agriculture industries at a mass scale with optimum expenditure. An automated
irrigation model is designed and implemented this model considering low cost,
reliability, and automatic control. As the proposed model is automatically controlled
it will help the farmers to properly irrigate their fields. The model always ensures the
sufficient level of water in different fields avoiding the under-irrigation and over-
irrigation
➢ Rashid et al (2013) : The fertility meter and ph. meter to determine the percentage of
potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen which are the most important ingredients of soil.
Now after measuring fertility of soil, we have implanted the automatic plant irrigator
for DRIP irrigation through wireless. Both techniques will help to judge fertility and
moisture content of soil. This application of sensor-based irrigation has some
advantages such as preventing moisture stress of trees, diminishing of excessive
water usage, ensuring of rapid growing weeds, measuring fertility of soil.
Proposed system
The system is a combination of hardware and software components. The hardware
part consists of embedded system and software is the web page designed using IOT
components. The webpage is hosted online and consists of a database in which readings
from sensors are inserted using the hardware.
So the proposed system have 3 different section to work on. These sections are-
➢ YL-69 soil moisture sensor will use for collect soil moisture data.
➢ The sensor YL-69 is made up of two electrodes.
➢ In this sensor we are using 2 probes to be dipped into the soil as per moisture we will
get Analog Output variations from 0.60- 12 volts.
➢ Input Voltage 12V DC.
2. Humidity and temperature sensor
There are some tools, software and modules that are used for making
backend of this project. These are given as--
➢ Mongodb database
➢ Node js server
➢ ESPlorer
➢ Postman
➢ Grafana
➢ Prometheus
MongoDB
➢ To start with Lua script for NodeMCU, we can use ESPlorer IDE. The ESPlorer is an
IDE for ESP developer.
➢ ESPlorer IDE allows you to establish serial communication with your ESP8266, send
commands, upload code and much more.
Postman
➢ It has the ability to make various types of HTTP requests(GET, POST, PUT,
PATCH), saving environments for later use, converting the API to code for various
languages(like JavaScript, Python).
➢ In this project, we will use the Postman software to send and receive requests, POST
data to the server.
postman
Grafana
[03] Karan Kansara, Vishal Zaveri, Shreyans Shah, Sandip Delwadkar, and
Kaushal Jani “Sensor based Automated Irrigation System with IOT: A Technical
Review”,(IJCSIT) International Journal of Computer Science and Information
Technologies.
[4] Pavithra D.S, M.S.Srinath GSM based Automatic Irrigation Control System for
Efficient Use of Resources and Crop Planning by Using an Android Mobile.
[07] Gayathri Natarajan and Dr. L. Ashok Kumar, Implementation of IoT Based Smart
Village for the Rural Development, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and
Technology 8(8), 2017, pp. 1212–1222.