Sensoponics: IoT-Enabled Automated Smart Irrigation and Soil Composition Monitoring System

Abstract

‘Water’ is one of the key components available to mankind. All living things consist mostly of water; e.g., the human body is made up of 67% of water. Water is the crucial component of life and is essential for sustenance, so as it is a most vital component for upgrading agricultural productivity, and hence, the utilization of water in a most efficient manner is the key concept we must follow to improve the farming/gardening in the nation. Sensoponics helps the farmers/gardeners to distribute water to crops/plants by providing them with water when they need the water, and this helps to prevent wastage of water and soil degradation. In this project, we will develop an automated smart monitoring and irrigation system that helps farmers/gardeners to know the status of their crops/plants from home or from any part of the world. This system helps farmer/gardeners to irrigate the land in a very organized manner based on soil humidity, atmospheric temperature and humidity, and water consumption of the plant. Water surplus irrigation reduces plant production and degrades soil fertility and stimuli ecological hazards like water wasting and soil degradation. The smart system not only provides comfort but also reduces energy conservation, efficiency, and time-saving. Nowadays, farmers are not financially stable to use industry graded automation and control machine which are high in cost. So, in this project, we will implement a concept of Internet of things (IoT) to read the data from sensors using Arduino Uno and send it to ThingSpeak, an open-source cloud to store and analyze the data of sensors.