Autonomous irrigation system

Abstract

India is an agriculture based country and it needs a smart and efficient way of irrigation to prevent wastage of water as water table in many regions of the country are already depleting at a serious level. In this paper, implementation of a system which has multiple sensors connected to a control module to regulate outflow of water in an irrigation system is shown. The paper shows a Raspberry Pi based system which takes input from sensors like humidity sensor, soil moisture sensor, barometer etc. to regulate the water output to the irrigation field. Multiple sensors are scattered over the field. The sensors in the field sense the moisture of the soil and signals it back to the microcontroller. The control module then irrigates the field according to the water requirement based on the sensor data. The model of an autonomous irrigation system also implementing machine learning is presented for rural areas. The aim of the autonomous irrigation system and its implementation is to effectively irrigate agricultural fields preventing water wastage.