Design and deployment of an IoT-based agriculture pesticide spraying system for Cucumis Melo

Chan, Yan Kang (2024) Design and deployment of an IoT-based agriculture pesticide spraying system for Cucumis Melo. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In this project, it is aims to design and deployment of an IoT-based agriculture pesticide spraying system for Cucumis Melo. The motivation of this project is to solve the manpower shortage in agriculture sector and as a step to speed up the agriculture sector in Malaysia towards industry 4.0. Mechanism function in agriculture pesticide spraying system is the important factor in design and development of an integrated agriculture pesticide spraying system. Generally, there are two types of pesticide spraying system which are mobile-type and fixed-type. Both pesticide spraying systems have their own advantages and disadvantages. Hence, a hybrid-type pesticide spraying system is the final solution to this problem as it integrates the advantages and overcomes the disadvantages of both pesticide spraying system. Therefore, the objectives in this project are to design the structural of IoT-based agricultural pesticide spraying system utilizing linear motion mechanism, develop an IoT-based agricultural pesticide spraying system and construct its mechanism and analyse the performance of agricultural pesticide spraying system in the aspects of its efficiency and reliability. With clear and obvious objectives, the methods to achieve the goals are planned and conducted. To design the pesticide spraying system, the conceptual design of the system is sketched in SolidWorks software for hardware part while the schematic diagram of the system is designed in Proteus software for software part. Then, bill of materials is listed out for the deployment of the system and the control panel of the system is designed and built with Arduino Cloud. To develop a reliable pesticide spraying system, an exclusive PCB for the system is designed by using Altium Designer software. After that, the analysis of the agriculture pesticide spraying system proceed in the experiment planned to obtain important data for further improvement. From the findings, the percentage of slippage on timing belt is 3.52% which considered as minimal slippage in timing belt. For the functionality of system, the probability of system failure is obtained in 0% which had proven the feasible design and develop in IoT-based agriculture pesticide spraying system. For functionality of automation control of system, the system had operated punctually and periodically in all the time slots set in the IoT platform.

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