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SMART IRRIGATION USING NODE-MCU
Shaikh Awais Yusuf*1, Sayed Mojiz Abbas*2, Prof. Sonali Suryawanshi*3
*1,2,3
Computer Engineering Department, Rizvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

ABSTRACT
India is an agriculture based country. Agriculture could be a supply of support of majority Indians and
encompasses a nice impact on the economy of the country. In dry areas or just in case of inadequate downfall,
irrigation becomes tough. So, it has to be machine-controlled for correct yield and handled remotely for farmer
safety. This will be a catalyst for the transition from traditional farming to modern farming increasing energy
costs and decreasing water supplies point out the need for better water management.
Smart Irrigation System could be a complicated method process to see once and the way a lot of water to use to
a growing crop to satisfy specific management objectives. So, economical water management plays a crucial
role within the irrigated agricultural cropping systems. an occasional price different answer for economical
water management presently in use is drip irrigation systems that comprises an automatic management to show
on & off the control values, that successively helps the farmers by managing the facility to the crop fields and
any maintains the wetness levels of soil that helps in higher crop. This Embedded project is to style associate
degreed develop an occasional price feature that is predicated on an embedded platform for water irrigation
systems This project uses temperature and soil wet sensors to observe the water quantity gift in agriculture.
KEYWORDS: Soil Moisture, Arduino Nano, Node MCU, Smart Agriculture, Wetness, Temperature

I. INTRODUCTION
Smart Agriculture developing model may be a real time observation system. It monitors the soil properties like
temperature, humidity, soil wetness, PH etc. By victimisation the thought of a contemporary irrigation system a
farmer will save water up to 51%. this idea depends on 2 irrigation strategies like overhead sprinklers, flood
kind feeding systems
It is attainable to manage several operations of the sector remotely from anyplace, anytime by IOT.
Overcoming these drawbacks new techniques are adopted within the irrigation techniques, through that little
amounts of water applies to the components of the basis zone of a plant. The plant soil wetness stress is
prevented by providing a needed quantity of water resources oft or typically daily by that the wetness condition
of the soil can retain a well diagram. the normal techniques like mechanical device or surface irrigation needs
uses nearly 1/2 water sources. Even a lot of precise amounts of water may be provided for plants.
The dry rows between plants can result in continuous federations throughout the irrigation method. Fertilizers
may be applied through this sort of system, and also the price needed for will cut back. The erosion of soil and
wind is far reduced by the recent techniques compared with overhead mechanical device systems. The soil
characteristics can outline the shape of the dripping nature within the root zone of a plant that receives wetness.
It offers a art movement approach of life within which a personal gets to manage his electronic devices
employing a smartphone, it conjointly offers AN economical use of energy. It applied altogether areas of
business, as well as sensible agriculture, sensible parking, sensible building environmental observation,
attention transportation and plenty of a lot of.

II. METHODOLOGY
Irrigation of plants is sometimes a awfully long activity, to be tired an inexpensive quantity of your time, it
needs an oversized quantity of human resources. these days some systems use technology to scale back the
amount or staff or the time needed to water the plants. The projected aim is to provide water once the farm is
dry while not human presence and avoiding water wastage within the irrigation method. conjointly monitor the
soil parameters like temperature, wetness and soil wet level.

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a) Hardwares
The good agriculture model principally aims to avoid water wastage within the irrigation method. it's a coffee
value and economical system. It includes NodeMCU, Arduino Nano, sensors like soil wet and Dht11, coil
valves, relay.
1) NodeMCU: NodeMCU is Associate in Nursing open supply IoT platform. It includes microcode that runs
on the ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC from communicatory Systems, and hardware that is predicated on the ESP-12
module. The term "NodeMCU" by default refers to the microcode instead of the dev kits. The microcode uses
the Lua scripting language. The programming code is being written for ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip mistreatment
Arduino IDE, that installation of ESP8266 library is needed. we have a tendency to designed to form operating
with this chip super simple and a great deal of fun. we have a tendency to took a licensed module with Associate
in Nursing aboard antenna, and many of pins, and soldered it onto our designed escape PCBs. whereas this chip
has been very talked-about, it’s conjointly been terribly tough to use. Most of the low-priced modules.

2) Arduino Nano: The Arduino Nano could be a little, complete, and breadboard-friendly board supported the
ATmega328 or ATmega168. it's additional or less a similar practicality of the Arduino Duemilanove, however
during a completely different package. the facility Down mode saves the register contents, however freezes the
generator, disabling all different chip functions till subsequent interrupt or hardware reset.

Fig-1: Arduino Nano

It has a large vary of applications and could be a major microcontroller board due to its little size and
suppleness. So, currently let's have a glance at its basic features:
It has twenty two input/output pins in total.
14 of those pins square measure digital pins.
Arduino Nano has eight analogue pins. It has six PWM pins among the digital pins.
It has a oscillator of 16MHz. It's operational voltage varies from 5V to 12V.
It conjointly supports other ways of communication, which are:
Serial Protocol.
I2C Protocol.
SPI Protocol.
It conjointly encompasses a mini USB Pin that is employed to transfer code. It conjointly encompasses a button
thereon.
Memory of Arduino Nano:
Flash memory of the Arduino Nano is 32Kb.
It has pre pre-installed bootloader thereon, that takes a non-volatile storage of 2kb.
It has Associate in Nursing EEPROM memory of 1kb.

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The Arduino Nano are often power-driven via the Mini-B USB affiliation, 6-20V unregulated external power
provide (pin 30), or 5V regulated external power provide (pin 27). the facility supply is mechanically designated
to the best voltage supply. In Power-save mode, the asynchronous timer is run, permitting the user to keep up a
timer base whereas the remainder of the device is sleeping. The ADC Noise Reduction mode stops the computer
hardware and every one I/O modules except asynchronous timer and ADC to attenuate change noise throughout
ADC conversions. In Standby mode, the crystal/resonator generator is running whereas the remainder of the
device is sleeping. this permits in no time start-up combined with low power consumption.

3) Jumper Wires: Jumper wires area unit merely wires that have instrumentation pins at every finish,
permitting them to be wont to connect 2 points to every different while not bonding. Jumper wires area unit
generally used with breadboards and different prototyping tools so as to create it simple to alter a circuit..

4) Temperature and wetness sensor: Wetness device is one among the foremost vital devices that has been
wide utilized in shopper, industrial, biomedical, and environmental etc. applications for measurement and
watching wetness values. For watching the temperature and wetness we have a tendency to use the DHT11
device. The DHT11 detects the vapour by measurement the ohmic resistance between 2 electrodes. The wetness
sensing part could be a wetness holding substrate with electrodes applied to the surface.
5) Relay Module: A relay is associate electrically operated switch. several relays use associate magnet to
automatically operate a switch, however different in operation principles also are used, like solid-state relays.
Relays area unit used wherever it's necessary to regulate a circuit by a separate low-power signal, or wherever
many circuits should be controlled by one signal. the primary relays were utilized in long distance telegraph
circuits as amplifiers: they perennial the signal returning in from one circuit and re-transmitted it on another
circuit.

b) Softwares

1) The Arduino IDE: The Arduino IDE is unbelievably minimalistic, nonetheless it provides a near-complete
surroundings for many Arduino-based comes. the highest menu bar has the quality choices, together with “File”
(new, load save, etc. ), “Edit” (font, copy, paste, etc. ), “Sketch” (for assembling and programming), “Tools”
(useful choices for testing projects), and “Help”. The center section of the IDE could be a straightforward text
editor wherever you'll be able to enter the program code. rock bottom section of the IDE is devoted to associate
output window that's wont to see the standing of the compilation, what proportion memory has been used, any
errors that were found within the program, and numerous different helpful messages.Arduino programs area unit
written within the Arduino Integrated Development surroundings (IDE).Arduino IDE could be a special
software package running on your system that enables you to write down sketches (synonym for program in
Arduino language) for various Arduino boards. The programming of Arduino language relies on a really simple
hardware programing language referred to as process . C language and this language area unit nearly same. once
the sketch is written within the Arduino IDE , it ought to get uploaded on the Arduino board for best
implementation .

III. MODELLING AND ANALYSIS

Smart Irrigation system can also be very well triggered in web user interface. In this case, motor pump will start
and work for 10 seconds. If moisture levels of soil drops below this value the motor pump will be turned on for
at least 10 seconds . After 10 minutes the user needs to check again soil moisture and switch on the pump if
necessary.

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Fig-2: Smart irrigation using Node-MCU

Fig-3: Implementation Smart irrigation using Node-MCU

IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

In irrigation project the motor may be controlled simply supported temperature, wetness and wetness Level. The
soil wetness level is measured by the all the sensors. Then all values square measure being regenerate to digital
kind and from their it's applied to Arduino Nano.
However, if there's a case wherever the soil wetness level is attenuated to a definite level, motor Switches on
mechanically with none human effort. We use just one motor for 2 totally different sort of farming. The flow of
water is controlled by coil valve during which it directly measures the amount of wetness of soil.
For this sort of farming 2 wetness sensors square measure used, they're directly connected to microcontrollers
and send wetness levels ceaselessly. We have 2 modes during this system, automatic and manual. In automatic
the motor will management mechanically supported device information. In manual mode the motors may be
simply controlled by us.

V. CONCLUSION
The main concept of this irrigation project are for farmers and the consumer who don’t have adequate amount of
time for watering of plants and crops. This project is highly beneficial for the farmers who face scarcity of
water.

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Smart agriculture has been successfully implemented for betterment of consumers by checking the real time
values of temperature as well as Humidity. This also stores the parameters in very proper manner. This project
will help the consumer to check the conditions of various parameters anytime in the field. They can control or
maintain the parameters of the field properly.
Finally, we can come to a result that automatic irrigation system is more efficient than scheduled irrigation

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