Intelligent Control and Design of Smart Irrigation System using Sensors

As water requirements is large for irrigation, So a smart irrigation system is needed. Which can save a lot of water around 80%in our country human population has been increasing at a fast rate and for their food need. Irrigation is an essential process that influences crop production. Generally farmers go to their agriculture fields frequently to check the moisture level of the soil and based on requirement water is pumped by motors to irrigate respective fields. Farmer need to wait for certain time period before switching off motor so that water is allowed to flow in sufficient quantity in all the fields. This irrigation method takes lot of time and effort particularly when a farmer need to irrigate more than one agriculture fields distributed in different geographical areas. This paper aims to make a prototype for irrigation of the fields which will reduce the work load of the farmer, man power will be reduced and water will be efficiently used so the wastage of water will also reduce. Sensors like Soil moisture Sensor, Temperature Sensor and Humidity Sensor will be placed in the fields . All the Sensors will be connected to a Arduino board which will transfer all the data to Raspberry Pi wirelessly through Zigbee. The data will be stored in the Raspberry Pi locally and then the data will be transferred to the Server. A web page will be created and all the data of the Sensors will be seen on this page.