International Journal of Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering, ISSN(p): 2347-6982, ISSN(e): 2349-204X

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SMART IRRIGATION SYSTEM USING LABVIEW AND IOT
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VINOD.H. PATIL, 2PRAKASH RAY, 3VARSHA JADHAV, 4SNEHAPRABHA JADHAV
1,2,3
Department of Electronics and Tele communication Engineering, Bharti Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be) University, College
of Engineering, Pune, India
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Prakas Rai, Software developer, America
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
4
[email protected]

Abstract - Now a days ,it is important to save the water for farming, the farmer can not be only depend on rain water. For
the growth of plant appropriate soil water level is necessary and for that the fields should have proper irrigation level. To
monitor and indicate the soil moisture level we have to design easy and simple method, this is the main objective of this
paper. Using the LABview as monitoring software the optimization of resources will done and at the same time growth of
plant will achieved and directly seen the sensor data on internet. For the replacement of expensive controllers the Arduino
will be used in this project. To analyze signals such as moisture, rain and temperature from sensor the arduino at mega
programmed. Especially in rural areas the manufacturing cost matters, So we are using easily available components, it
reduces the maintenance cost also.

Keywords - IOT, LABVIEW, Rain sensor, Soil Sensor, Arduino ,Laptop.

I. INTRODUCTION  Using automating farm by farmers the actual

amount of water would provided at the right
Agriculture irrigation is a important phenomenal in time.
India agriculture depends on monsoon season due to  Human errors will be avoided by adjusting the
insufficient source of water source of irrigation used soil moisture level and it is a time saving.
for agricultural purpose . The irrigation system also
depends on type of soil. There are two type of criteria
Area of utility:
in which two things are important, First is measure
Focus is to reduces farmers work and to help them.
moisture contained in soil and second isfertility of
In terminal plant irrigation land for farming ways this
soil. For the development of the plant environmental
model can be used.
parameters such as soil moisture , temperature ,
humidity ,solar radiation etc. plays a very important
Working:
role. Moisture loss and temperature management of
the plant is due to the humidity .
In India manual type of irrigation system used is the
automatic system for irrigation .It is simple and easy
to install . The farmers will get proper quantity of
Water, by automating farm at the proper time. IoT
(Internet of thing) plays a big role in transforming the
agriculture industry and enable to farmer to play the
challenges they face like increasing water storage
limited availability of land. In future using the
sensors like temperature, humidity, etc the control of
irrigation automation will be possible. Increasing
consumption needs of globe population which is
expected to growth by 70 % by 2050.Automating
farm permits the farmer to use current quantity of
water . Using Wi-fi, Ethernet, etc this device could be
connected to internet.
Unfortunately , many farmers still used traditional
method which results to low yield of crops but when The above shown is the block diagram of the
automation has been implemented and human beings labVIEW module. soil sensor and rain sensor are
has been replaced by them. The yield is improved . used. The soil moisture sensor will read the moisture
restrictions of physical cables. Additionally, your of level of the soil and rain sensor will detect the
Automatic Irrigation Needs: rainfall. Both the data will be sent to the Arduino by
 It is simple and easy to install. sensors. Arduino is connected with the Wi-Fi module
 It is saving energy and resources, by utilizing in ESP8266, which will allow the wireless connection of
proper way. arduino with the labVIEW software which is present
on laptop. LabVIEW will then read the data received

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from Arduino by wireless medium .LabVIEW will  ESP8266 : The ESP8266 module is a
compare the soil moisture level and rainfall sensing solution that can carry software application or
data with a certain predefine threshold. If both the uninstall all Wi-Fi networking capabilitiesthrough
data are below the threshold limit, automatically it another application processor. It isa self-contained
will start irrigation by switching ON the relay which Wi-Fi network.
will turn on the LED . LABVIEW will also send the  LabVIEW : LabVIEW stands for
data to the Web Server which allow access to the data Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering
over internet . In LABVIEW GUI there will be also Workbench which is also known as artificial
an option to control the relay manually . This language from national instrument.It is also a system
complete process will be repeated continuously once style platform and development surrounding.
the desired soil moisture level is achieved.
IoT:
Algorithm: In the existing infrastructure, IoT is interconnection
Step 1 : Start the process . of the embedded computing device with the help of
Step 2 : Initialize power is supplied to Arduino and electronic sensor of internet. IoT connects devices
other peripherals modules. and vehicals. To collect different kinds of data and
Step 3 : Check the moisture level (less than or more exchange it, IoT ones physical objects device,
than ) and also for the rain sensor. vehicles, building and different softwares. The IoT
Step 4: If the level will be more than a fixed threshold also sense and control the network world wide.
, no need to irrigation ,the relay will be off . Also if
it’s raining ,the relay will be off . To integrate opportunites for physical world to
Step 5:If moisture level is less than a fixed threshold computer based system. Can be result in greater
value and no rain , automatically it starts irrigation accuracy and also gave benefits to economic
through relay. Wearable and embedded are two kinds of IoT
Step 6: Displaying data on LABVIEW interface and technology. For custom wearable devices developers
Web Server . GUI can also control the relay create app such as peeble Samsung gear or also lead
manually. their open platform with help of embedded solution
Step 7: After the process is completed, it moves to and they build apps for that platform.
original state and returns to the step3.
Step 8: Stop the process. Influence of crop types on irrigation system:

point. Adhoc wireless network can be especially Water requirement of crops:

applied in enterprise business compounds or military
campuses. Water
Duration
Sr.no Crops requirements
Hardware components: in days
(mm)
 Aurduino : Arduino is a hardware 1. Rice 135 1250
components is a open source of physical components
where the simple input and output board and 2. Groundnut 105 550
development which is being implemented the
3. Sorghum 100 350
processing language. There are 20 pins in the square
(0-19) in which the 6 pins are analog inputs and these 4. Maize 110 500
pins are used as general purpose pins ,an influence
jack and a push, a ceramic resonator of frequency 5. Sugarcane 365 2000
16MHz , an USB associated. 6. Cotton 165 550
 Rain sensor: Rain sensor is module which
is used for detecting rain. The module features rain 7. Pulses 65 350
module, control board and separated wire. On the port
the LED is provided to indicate the power and a Advantages :
potentiometer can be used to achieve sensitivity. 1. This is done with wireless moisture sensors that
 Moisture Sensor : Usually this module or communicate with the smart irrigation controls and
sensor is used to find the level of moisture of soil and helps inform the system whether or not the landscape
it is sensitive to the very close level of moisture. A is in need of water.
YL-69 sensors allows to get two outputs comes with 2. The smart irrigation system will help you have
‘a middle –man’ circuit as follow, 1.Between the better control of your landscape needs as well as
sensors probes an analog readout of the resistance and peace of mind that the smart system can make
2. The digital outputwhich is depending on the decision independently if you are away .
humidity whether it is below or above the threshold. 3. You have significant amount if money your water
Further it can be adjusted by a built in POTS. bills because through intelligent control and
automation .
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4. Your smart irrigation system will optimize the user to access the soil moisture levels remotely
resource so that everything gets what it needs without using a web page which results in better productivity.
need less waste .
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