Automatic Watering System for Oil Palm Seeds

Suriyo Ardiyanto,Zulfian Azmi,Afdal Al Hafiz

doi:10.52362/ijiems.v1i1.682

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https://doi.org/10.52362/ijiems.v1i1.682

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Nursery of oil palm is a period of preparing oil palm for approximately 3 months. However, in watering still using the manual method, this method still has a weakness, namely by pulling the water hose so that farmers of oil palm have to work hard and drain energy and also take a long time. From these problems, a solution was made by making an automatic palm seed watering system using the rtc module as the scheduling of the watering system and NodeMCU as the brain of the system's main process and using the blynk application as a notification output in the form of messages. As a result, the automatic watering system can work optimally if the time of the watering process has been determined and the system is able to send notifications to the blynk and display messages on the results of the watering process, with this automatic watering system it can help the work of oil palm nursery farmers.

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The development of technology and artificial intelligence systems that are increasingly advanced and sophisticated can make human tasks easier in terms of work
A solution was made by making an automatic palm seed watering system using the rtc module as the scheduling of the watering system and NodeMCU as the brain of the system's main process and using the blynk application as a notification output in the form of messages
NodeMCU will be connected to the power supply as a source of electric current, the Real Time Clock (RTC) module is connected as a watering scheduling process and is active when the time has been determined for the watering process automatically, and a servo motor as a control or driver for the watering process

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The development of technology and artificial intelligence systems that are increasingly advanced and sophisticated can make human tasks easier in terms of work. Technology has penetrated in agriculture, especially oil palm nurseries. Nursery of Oil palm is a period of preparing oil palm for approximately 3 months starting from sprouts to become complete young plants [1]. It is necessary to have sufficient water available so that the oil palm seedlings do not lack water, because basically in the early stages of oil palm seedlings have shallow roots (fiber roots) so that if there is a lack of water, the impact will look thin on the stems and do not develop or do not grow. Properly, on the leaves will appear small brown spots accompanied by yellow circles and can cause death in oil palm seedlings It is necessary to have sufficient water available so that the oil palm seedlings do not lack water, because basically in the early stages of oil palm seedlings have shallow roots (fiber roots) so that if there is a lack of water, the impact will look thin on the stems and do not develop or do not grow. properly, on the leaves will appear small brown spots accompanied by yellow circles and can cause death in oil palm seedlings

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