GSM Based Irrigation System

Abstract

In this modern world agriculture plays a vital role in the development of the country, economy and its people. Agriculture depends a lot on the source and supply of water and that becomes a major issue in places which rely solely on the monsoons as their primary source of water, since the monsoons are not evenly distributed all over the country every year. In such cases, the scheduled watering of the crops can get hampered, and that might in turn hamper the quality and quantity of crops produced. To overcome this problem, the proposed smart irrigation system can be employed in the field of agriculture. In agriculture, apart from a water source, two more aspects are of prime importance, namely, the moisture content of the soil and its fertility. In this system, based on the soil type and the moisture levels, water will be provided to the agricultural field. At present, there are several techniques available to reduce the dependency on seasonal rain for agriculture. Mostly these techniques use electricity. However, in this paper our aim is to propose a low cost, sustainable solution to the problem of water supply in indoor cultivation, farms and agricultural fields.