Development of Smart Irrigation System

Abstract

Plants need sufficient water resources to be healthy and fertile. Excess amount of water and less amount of water supplied to plant may cause the plant to wither and die. Past research has focused on the method on how to watering the plant water on the right time with the right amount of water and also using a different microcontroller. An own idea proposed to improve the approaches of existing systems. This project focused on how to develop a smart irrigation system using NodeMCU ESP8266. This home based system is to facilitate human in watering plant without involving any manpower. The aim of the project is to detect the moisture content in soil to control the water valve automatically. This system consists of automatic water valve and manual control for fertilizer valve. The final components and materials needed to support an efficient auto watering system were obtained by analyzing and testing the prototypes.