Implementation of Microcontroller Arduino in Irrigation System
The aim of this article is the design and implementation of intelligent irrigation devices using the Arduino microcontroller. The control interface of the irrigation system was created as a mobile application. The currently existing various similar soluti
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Abstract. The aim of this article is the design and implementation of intelligent irrigation devices using the Arduino microcontroller. The control interface of the irrigation system was created as a mobile application. The currently existing various similar solutions are all from the perspective of money unprofitable. The present solution is very cheap and effective especially for home usage. Following the extension it can also be applied on a larger scale e.g. for buildings greenhouse, intelligent garden and others. We used these hardware components for realization: the microcontroller Arduino Yun, real-time clock DS1302, two humidity sensors, relays and solenoid valves. The application for controlling irrigation device using mobile technology was created in the programming language Java. This easy smart irrigation system can be controlled by smartphone or tablet with operating systems Android 4 and above. Reactions and all functions of proposed intelligent system were verified with statistical surveyes. The results were evaluated by using technics of explorating analysis and non parametric Levene’s test. By analysis we can determine the reliability of the irrigation equipment and so clarify the behavior of the system for the existence of systematic and random errors. Keywords: Automatization Intelligent system Arduino YUN PHP Java Reliability evaluation
1 Introduction All human beings, animals and plants need water for survival. It is one of the basic needs for everyone. Most of the agriculture systems face water wastage as the major problem [1]. Agriculture, “The backbone of Indian economy” as quoted by MK Gandhi is defined as an integrated system of techniques to control the growth and harvesting of animal and vegetables. This statement is true and they should take an example from it and other countries [2]. Today agriculture uses for irrigation purposes 85 % of water [1]. Monitoring soil water content at high spatio-temporal resolution and coupled to other sensor data is crucial for applications oriented towards water sustainability in agriculture, such as precision irrigation or phenotyping root traits for drought tolerance [3]. The paper [4] shows that there are some technologies that benefit both farmers and the industry. ICT has certainly had a big impact on agriculture. One example that shows the successful use © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 D.-S. Huang et al. (Eds.): ICIC 2016, Part I, LNCS 9771, pp. 133–144, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42291-6_13
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of ICT in agriculture are mobile telephones, in currently – smartphones [5]. This has been used to access information on weather and many other aspects. According to the work [6], ICT provide farmers with the opportunities for communication with other farmers, or options controlling their production. In current development and implementation of ICT in the form of mobile devices, more of them support greater processing power, more vivid display, and higher efficient information collecting method, which enhanc
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