This document describes a robotic irrigation system developed using Arduino. The system is capable of flattening land, sowing seeds, watering crops based on soil moisture, spraying fertilizer, and cutting crops. It uses sensors, motors controlled by an Arduino board, and notifies the farmer of tasks done using GSM. The system aims to save farmer time, money and labor needs in agriculture.

1. Under the guidance of
INTERNAL GUIDE :- Mr.JAYARAJ N(Asst. Professor ,Dept. of ECE,TOCE)
EXTERNAL GUIDE :- Mr.SRIDHARAN B (Project leader at DRAX,C-DOT)
Project Carried out at C-DOT, Electronic city, Bangalore
Presented By
1.Dhanush V 1OX11EC021
2.Gnanendra Reddy D 1OX11EC027
3.Ganesh Timmappa Hedge 1OX12EC406
ROBOTIC IRRIGATION USING
ARDUINO

2.  The technology has developed in various fields including
the agriculture.
In agriculture there are many automatic machines
developed in order save the human energy and time but they
are either won’t be much efficient features or economical in
cost.
So we have developed a irrigation robot which is capable
of doing all basic function required to be done by a farmer
ABSTRACT

3. As the world’s population is tremendously growing every day
and land resources being unutilized, there is a large requirement
of agricultural productivity. In order to increase agriculture
productivity ‘I-farming’ is used.
But still there is no autonomous process where the farmer need
not spend lot of energy in his farm and lands for controlling the
action of fertilizing, watering, sowing seeds and maintenance of
plants.
In our automating irrigation robot we have developed the
features that is availing the farmers a portable and an easy tool
to use that will automate the various processes that the farmer
does .
INTRODUCTION

4. At present there are two kinds of Irrigation Robots are
developed and implemented are as follows
• Irrigation Robot which is capable of performing actions
such as watering (Aquarius robot) and fertilizing the
plants.
• Agricultural robot which is only capable of sowing the
seeds(Smart Seeder).
EXISTING SYSTEM

5. We have developed a portable automate irrigation robot
system that performs the tasks of the farmers such as sowing
the seeds, flattening the land, spraying fertilizers or water
and cutting the crops .
The challenges of this project are :
1. To flatten the irrigation land through flattening
mechanism.
2. To integrate fertilizer spraying mechanisms on
the robot as well as watering the plant.
3. To integrate a mechanism for sowing the seeds in
the crop land .
4.Finally, cutting mechanism used to cut the crops.
PROPOSED SYSTEM

6. BLOCK DIAGRAM

7. Project model

8. Flattening mechanism by robot
For this feature functioning we are using a DC
motor(300RPM) controlled through motor driver which in turn
controlled by ATmega328 microcontroller on chip program. The
depth at which land has to be flattened is based on the amount of
delay(turn on/off the motor) declared in the program.
Sowing the seeds by robot
For this feature functioning we are using a DC
motor(10RPM). To control amount of seed is to be sowed is
carried out manually and DC motor is used to control the depth
at which seed to be sowed. This DC motor is controlled by the
ATmega328 microcontroller based on the delay(turn on/off the
motor) declared in the program.
WORKING PRINCIPLE

9. Watering the crops based on soil moisture and
spraying the pesticides by robot
For this feature functioning we use a DC submersible
water pump, soil moisture sensor and DC motor(300RPM).
Dc motor (300RPM) mechanically moves the soil moisture
sensor against the soil in depth and checks whether the soil
is wet or dry. Based on the condition of soil the DC
submersible water pump is made to allow the flow of
water/fertilizer to the crop growing land.
WORKING PRINCIPLE(Cont.)

10. Cutting mechanism carried out by robot.
For this feature functioning we are using three DC motor
(1000,10RPM) controlled through motor driver which in
turn controlled by ATmega328 microcontroller on chip
program. The depth at which crop has to be cut is based on
the amount of delay(turn on/off the motor) declared in the
program for DC motor(10RPM).The cutting is done by
rotating two DC 1000RPM motor in opposite direction.
 The each activity performed by robot intimated to
farmer using GSM module.
WORKING PRINCIPLE(Cont.)

11. SOFTWARE USED
Arduino 1.6.1
HARDWARE USED
Arduino Uno R3 board (Atmega328)
Soil Moisture Sensor (LM393)
IR Sensor (LM324)
DC Motor (10RPM, 300RPM, 1000RPM)
Motor Driver (L298N)
Power Source(12V, 7.5AMP/20HR)
Water Pump(12V DC SUBMERSIBLE PUMP)
GSM Module(SIM 900A)
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE
REQUIRMENTS

12. FLOW CHART

14. To save water, money and man power in the agriculture sector.
To solve the labor problem.
To save the farmer time.
The design, which will be efficient and effort reducing to the
farmer.
ADVANTAGES

15. This system may improve the way of agriculture is done by
the farmer to save money, time and energy.
This system may monitor and report real time situation of
the robot in an accurate manner to the farmer's mobile, thus
helping the farmer to be aware of the tasks performed.
By implementing this project in the field of agriculture we
can help the farmers in the various stage of agriculture i.e.
during the seeding and fertilizing.
This project is very useful for the farmers who are
intended to do agriculture activity but facing the labor
problem .
CONCLUSION

16.  Devices for Automatic Irrigation Based on GSM Network and
Radio Communication published in
Control,Automation,Robotics and Vision 9th International
Conference on 5-8 Dec. 2006 by IEEE.
Design and Implementation of Seeding and Fertilizing
Agriculture Robot , Shiva Prasad B S ,Ravi Shankar M N , B N
Shoban , ISSN 2319-4847 , Volume 3 , Issue 6 , June 2014 .
Design of Remote Monitoring and Control System with
Automatic Irrigation System using GSM-Bluetooth , Purnima,
S.R.N. Reddy,International Journal of Computer Applications
(0975 – 888), Volume 47– No.12, June 2012
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