02-08-2014, 02:53 PM
Automated Irrigation System
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Abstract:
The motivation for this project came from the countries where economy is based on agriculture and the
climatic conditions lead to lack of rains & scarcity of
water. The farmers working in the farm lands are solely dependent on the rains and bore wells for irrigation
of the land. Even if the farm land has a water-pump, manual intervention by farmers is required to turn the
pump on/off whenever needed.
The aim of our project is to minimize this manual intervention by the farmer, which is why we are using a
micro-controller (MSP430G2231). The micro-controller based Automated Irrigation system will serve the
following purposes:
1) As there is no un-planned usage of water, a lot of water is saved from being wasted.
2) The irrigation is d only when there is not enough moisture in the soil and the microcontroller decides
when should the pump be turned on/off, saves a lot time for the farmers. This also gives much needed rest to
the farmers, as they don’t have to go and turn the pump on/off manually.
Results & Conclusion:
Finally, we were able to interface the soil moisture sensor wit the MSP430 using ADC as the software
interface.
The ADC was successfully sampling the analog values given by the soil moisture sensor and we could see the
values being stored in the memory register of the ADC.
We emulated the soil using a wet tissue paper and when the soil moisture sensor was wrapped inside the wet
tissue paper, one of the LED’s of the MSP430 glowed which indicated that the moisture inside the soil was
sufficient. But, when the soil moisture sensor was taken out of the wet tissue paper and dried thoroughly, the
LED on the MSP430 stopped glowing indicating no moisture in the soil.
The integration was not a success but individually, we were able to interface the heart of the project that is
the soil moisture sensor to the MSP430.
[attachment=66517]
Abstract:
The motivation for this project came from the countries where economy is based on agriculture and the
climatic conditions lead to lack of rains & scarcity of
water. The farmers working in the farm lands are solely dependent on the rains and bore wells for irrigation
of the land. Even if the farm land has a water-pump, manual intervention by farmers is required to turn the
pump on/off whenever needed.
The aim of our project is to minimize this manual intervention by the farmer, which is why we are using a
micro-controller (MSP430G2231). The micro-controller based Automated Irrigation system will serve the
following purposes:
1) As there is no un-planned usage of water, a lot of water is saved from being wasted.
2) The irrigation is d only when there is not enough moisture in the soil and the microcontroller decides
when should the pump be turned on/off, saves a lot time for the farmers. This also gives much needed rest to
the farmers, as they don’t have to go and turn the pump on/off manually.
Results & Conclusion:
Finally, we were able to interface the soil moisture sensor wit the MSP430 using ADC as the software
interface.
The ADC was successfully sampling the analog values given by the soil moisture sensor and we could see the
values being stored in the memory register of the ADC.
We emulated the soil using a wet tissue paper and when the soil moisture sensor was wrapped inside the wet
tissue paper, one of the LED’s of the MSP430 glowed which indicated that the moisture inside the soil was
sufficient. But, when the soil moisture sensor was taken out of the wet tissue paper and dried thoroughly, the
LED on the MSP430 stopped glowing indicating no moisture in the soil.
The integration was not a success but individually, we were able to interface the heart of the project that is
the soil moisture sensor to the MSP430.