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IOT Based Low Cost Irrigation Model
Ashish Kumar
1
, Pawan Kumar Patnaik
2
, Sargam Gupta
3
1
Mtech. Scholar Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg, India.
2
Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg India.
3
Assistance Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bhilai Institute of Technology,Durg,
India.
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Abstract - The purpose of the paper is to provide a low-cost
irrigation model for farming fields and make a system to
monitor some parameters required for a successful installing a
low-cost irrigation system. This system not only solved the cost
of the system but also provides necessary data that is required
to know about the field area of the farmer. This paper also
includes the purposed concept of irrigation systems in which
this paper publish how important to be automated irrigation
is needed to farmers can achieve their goal and helps to reduce
the burden from them.
Key Words: Irrigation, IoT (Internet Of Things), NodeMCU,
Sensor, Actuators, Cloud, Blynk Etc.
1. INTRODUCTION
For any living being, water is the second most important
material after oxygen. Water supply for plants, Trees,
Flowers, and Farming fields is called an irrigation system.
Irrigation needs continuous monitoring of the water level
and soil moisture of plants. In Modern days costing of every
item has increased due to world order, pandemic, recession,
disturbed supply chain, chip shortage [1], and these busy
schedules people don't have sufficient time to monitor every
single plant in the field, but there are hopes on IoT
technologies [2] that can reduce the burden that generated
due lack of time and money.
In India, the country depends on farming for a huge amount
of GDP contribution and at least 70% of people [3] depend
on farming for their living. The country not only produce
food for itself but also to export other needy countries and
donation, charities in poor countries through International
organizations but remain in this position country have to
enhance productivity with the help of technology. For high-
quality products and to reduce the burden from the farmer
needs to have a good irrigation system [4] because for high
productivity water supply is the most important thing in
farming.
Irrigation needs to start water pump on time if soil
moisture reduces this concept [5] is used to make a system
using Internet of Things technology. The project aims to make
a low-cost irrigation system using IoT technologies.
It is necessary to monitor the environmental conditions in
and around the field and soil moisture. The Internet of Things
(IoT) has the potential to make the device for irrigation at a
very low cost with the number of sensors [6] to collect data
from the soil, weather, light intensity, raindrop, etc.
The parameters that have to be properly monitored are
soil characteristics, weather conditions, moisture,
temperature, etc. This can be possible by using IOT
technology with sensors and actuators that can sense the
field condition and perform the certain task accordingly
sensors are used to monitor and collect information about the
field conditions, and those data are collected to make a low-
cost irrigation system.
2. PRELIMINARIES
For the implementation model, it needs to follow some steps
one by one.
Step 1
Firstly one breadboard is required to arrange all the
equipment into one system. The types of equipment are
sensors like Soil moisture sensor, DHT11 sensor, LDR
sensor, Water sensor, Actuator like Relay module is needed
to perform the task, microcontroller board NodeMCU and
connecting wires with the USB cable to connect the system
to the computer and motor pump for irrigation. Connection
of all the sensors to the breadboard as per circuit diagram.
Fig 2.1
Step 2
Create a connection of sensors, and actuator, on the
breadboard to the NodeMCU with connecting wires called
model. That model is now connected to the computer