Solar Powered Soil Condition Activated Irrigation System with Automated Bird Repellant

Abstract

Irrigation plays a very important role in agriculture. Not all geographical regions utilize irrigation which is an important activity that is expensive. For the regions where irrigation is used, it commonly amounts to significant energy consumption. Traditional methods of farming are time-consuming and can only be efficient on a small scale. This project was implemented to make irrigation progressively inventive, easy to use, more efficient and cheaper than the current irrigation system and to solve traditional farming problems like an attack on crops by bird thereby increasing agricultural productivity. This system incorporates a soil moisture sensor to guarantee the application of water to soil adequately. It uses a PIR sensor and a buzzer to solve the problem of attack on crops by birds. This project is powered by a solar panel which is one of the cheapest form of renewable energy and environmentally friendly. The main objective of this project is to upturn the agricultural productivity of the nation by automating the irrigation process. Bird attacks on farmlands are also responsible for destroying a vast amount of crops. One of the traditional problems of agriculture is that farmers frequently neglect to water their plants; it can be as a result of inattentiveness or because of the fact that the farmers are far from home. The utilization of the soil moisture sensor limits the human presence. The microcontroller utilizes the real-time readings of the sensors and automates the irrigation and bird repellent process. From the results, it was observed that the irrigation time was higher in totally dry clay compared to partially wet clay and wet clay respectively. For clay, the irrigation time is in order of magnitude dry clay > partial wet clay > wet clay of the irrigation other soil samples. For the loamy soil, the dry soil was higher. It follows the same trend as the clay in magnitude. It can be found in sandy soil that the wet sample was higher than the totally dry and partially wet sandy soil in terms irrigation time