IoT Based Automatic Plant Watering System Through Soil Moisture Sensing—A Technique to Support Farmers’ Cultivation in Rural India

Abstract

Agriculture and Cultivation of paddy, wheat and vegetables basically takes place in Rural areas where technology isn’t available to that extend where this kind of huge production of grains and vegetables can be automated to help farmers. Farmers spend most of their time in the Agriculture field for watering the crop by leaving other works. Hence to help farmers from staying on the field whole day, we came up with a project which senses soil moisture and based on the data this system automatically turns ON the water pump into the field, and when the soil reaches enough moisture level, then water pump automatically gets turned OFF. Hence this concept may provide a long term solution to the farmers for a maintenance free agriculture where farmers don’t have to stay on the field breathing toxic chemicals and spoiling their health. The proposed project also have other features like sensing the Ambient temperature and humidity in the Agricultural field, sensing daylight intensity and rainfall detection on the field. Hence this inexpensive project can provide a solution for many agricultural and health related problems. To implement this project in a ease of access and updated way, we have incorporated IoT platform where the farmer can monitor all these field parameters over internet on their smart phone application. Therefore this could be a milestone in rebuilding the future.