Arduino Based Automatic Plant Watering System Using Soil Moisture Sensor For Botanical Purpose

Tiew, Wei Jia (2016) Arduino Based Automatic Plant Watering System Using Soil Moisture Sensor For Botanical Purpose. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The rising of surrounding temperature nowadays make people feel uncomfortable, and this problem more or less is caused by greenhouse effect that comes from all sorts of human activities which comprise of the usage of electricity, the burning of fossil fuels from vehicles and industries as well as deforestation. In other words, the lacking of plants is one of reason that leads to global warming. The idea of inventing Arduino based automatic plant watering system is inspired by the urge to preserve environment from greenhouse effect. With the effort and contribution of people in growing houseplants, the use of technology in designing a plant watering system that can water the plant automatically without the need of human effort can be implemented to deal with the hectic lifestyle of people nowadays. In conjunction with the objectives of doing this project, the design on automatic plant watering system is studied and is created using Arduino. This project is then developed using Arduino Uno as a microcontroller that interfaced by C and C++ assembly language. Meanwhile, Arduino works together with the soil moisture sensor upon detecting the moisture level of plants and send signal to control the on and off of the micro submersible water pump. The performance and functionality of the automatic plant watering system are analyzed using Parallax Data Acquisition tool (PLX-DAQ) Spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel as a result of data logging which also enable realtime monitoring directly from Arduino IDE. Overall, this Arduino based automatic plant watering system is beneficial in term of encouraging planting without the need of human effort. In the long run, the contribution of people in planting is expected to aid in minimizing greenhouse effect.

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