Smart Village Monitoring and Control Using PLC And SCADA

The development of a country always depends on the development of villages. In this regard, the data from Athipattu village has been taken to develop the concept of smart village. Athipattu is a village near Minjur in Thiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu. As part of the smart village concept, we need a system which monitors, control and automate the process involved in Agriculture, Water Management, Power saving and storing of cultivated products in a safe and long lasting environments. The existing projects have smart agriculture or smart power distribution or water management individually. Our project integrates the above features with an additional cold storage room for monitoring and controlling a smart village using PLC and SCADA. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a graphical representation of entire smart village. Programmable Logic controller (PLC) is digital computer which gets data from the field device and passes the control variables to SCADA Software. The moisture level in field is monitored and automates the irrigation systems for the crops, vegetable and farming related activities. The power can be saved by automating lights in public places like streets, parks etc. The availability of water is monitored from the resources like river and the water distribution is automated for the domestic and irrigation purpose. The public cold storage room also can be monitored and controlled where a farmer can keep his cultivated items for further processing. The Micrologix 1400 PLC by Allen Bradley and the Intouch Wonderware SCADA software are used in this project.