Automatic Water Management in Drip Irrigation

The main aim of the project is to minimize the man power and to restrict the wastage of water. It also aims to reduce the energy of man. It increases the yield of crops. The automatic water management in drip irrigation is used to provide required water to crops. There are main three units in the project i.e. sensor unit, valve unit and main base station unit. Microcontroller is used to communicate between three units. Water that is to be provided to crops is first saved in a tank from lakes, rivers etc. So we had used one more unit motor unit .the soil moisture sensors senses the volumetric water content in soil and provides the data to base station unit using microcontroller The Zigbee is used to compare the values, and compare the values with threshold and provides the corresponding data to base station unit. Base station unit gives the information to valve unit. Valve unit will open the valve of particular lane to which the water is to be provided. After the conditions are fulfilled again the information is send to base station unit which sends the data to valve unit and valve unit changes the direction of the valve .as we have used motor unit it will first check if it is dry run it will power off the motor, and again it checks whether pressure of water is low or high, if it is low motor again will be turned off showing that water tank is going to be empty.