Smart Gardening System Powered By Solar Energy

Tang, Wendy Hie Lin (2019) Smart Gardening System Powered By Solar Energy. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The automation system has been applied and practised in the farming system since the 1990s. However, the application of automation home gardening system still few as the people still concern on inverting the auto irrigation system to high cost and energy required to pursue a large number of vegetables with good yield and appearance. They still use the hand power to water and irrigate the plants. This project is developed for objective to design a smart system for the home garden, construct a smart gardening system powered by solar energy and analyse the performance of the smart gardening system. This system is targeted for small scale of home gardening in order to reduce the human intervention to manage and care of the garden. The sun-based panel under the sun can charge the battery all day and then the battery powers the pump. Arduino UNO is utilized as the main controller to give the command to the water submersible pump after the soil moisture sensor detects the lower volume of water in the soil and send the signal to the comparator. The manual watering provides a high level of moisture when the plant is watering and low level of moisture when the plant without watering. The voltage and current of the solar panel received is the highest in the afternoon. The automatic watering of the plant provides a regular and constant level of moisture. Conclusively, Smart Gardening System Powered by Solar Energy can control and manage the irrigation efficiently and effectively in order to reduce the wastage of water as well as remove the requirement of workmanship for the watering intervals.

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