Low-Cost Sensor-Based Irrigation System for Efficient Water Management in Remote Agricultural Regions

Irrigation system with lower cost is considered to be increasingly significant, based on rising growth of human population, demand for food and global warming. This investigation attempts to provide a low cost sensor based irrigation system for monitoring and controlling from remote regions and to optimize water use for farming irrigation. A sensor based irrigation system that monitors and controls the supply of water uses sensors and actuators. It is specifically designed to automate the water supply from reservoirs and to crops over irrigation system. System lifecycle and waterfall model has been considered in development factor. The protocol suite, ardunio are integrated to provide the system model. Here, pumping approach has been utilized to provide water supply to soils. This system design offers sensing, power supply, monitoring and controlling factors and internet sources. Experimentation was carried out in MATLAB environment and simulation outcomes demonstrate practical and effectual way of implementing the anticipated system model. This irrigation system is need not only for farmers and also for increasing the economic functionalities. Moreover, this may diminish manual supervision that is needed for water supply by invoking remote monitoring and control system.