Yap, Heng Yi (2019) Demand-Operated Plant Watering System. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)
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Abstract
In this new era, agriculture has improved a lot with advanced technology.As we all know, water is crucial as it helps plants to grow.Jet, freshwater resources are depleting and manual watering is exhausting, time-consuming and not efficient.Having to water the plants every day at the desired periods is a challenge.Besides, some timer-based watering systems have no means of controlling suitable soil moisture.Plus, the plants will constantly be watered once soil moisture drops below the threshold for some simple automated plant watering system and irrigation scheduling is usually available for the large-scale farm with a more complex system.Therefore,a demand-operated plant watering system using Arduino with time setting function and soil moisture feedback for the indoor small-scale vegetable garden has been designed and developed to solve the problems.The performance of the system has been accessed and analysed also in terms of time and soil moisture control.To design a demand-operated plant watering system, a microcontroller Arduino has been programmed to control all the inputs and outputs.An LCD display was used to show the date, time, soil moisture level and water level while some pushbuttons were used to set the watering time.Soil moisture sensor and water level sensor were used as the feedback to the system.A water pump was used to supply water to the plant from the water container and a buzzer was used to alert the user when the water level is low.From experiment 1, 70 % of soil moisture was determined as the threshold level to water the plants.From experiment 2, it was proven that the plant watering system able to water the plants at the set time by providing soil moisture slightly higher than the threshold.
| Item Type: | Final Year Project (Project Report) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Automatic control,Arduino (Programmable controller), rototypes,Engineering |
| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
| Divisions: | Library > Final Year Project > FKE |
| Depositing User: | F Haslinda Harun |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2020 08:18 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2020 08:18 |
| URI: | http://digitalcollection.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24300 |
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