| An Automated Irrigation System | |
| अन्वेषक | Mr. Ajay Joshi Dr. K. N. Tiwari Dr. Swapna Banerjee |
| Patent | 198539 |
| An automated irrigation computer control system has been developed for management of irrigation. The development consisted of three distinctive steps (1) design of soil moisture sensor (2) design of suitable hardware to interface soil moisture sensors with personnel computer and to control water application; (3) development of device driver program and a user friendly software interface that allows easy control of the system. The system consists of eight soil moisture sensors, a hardware input/ output (interfacing circuit), a computer with a software interface, and solenoid valves as actuators. The software has option of time based and soil moisture based irrigation scheduling. Under time based irrigation scheduling there are options of operating irrigation either at regular time interval or at particular date and time. Soil moisture based irrigation scheduling consists of setting the upper and lower limit of the soil moisture content by the user. The program reads the soil moisture status at pre-decided time intervals, which is also set by the user. Irrigation starts when the read soil moisture content is lower than the set lower limit of soil moisture content and stops when soil moisture content reaches set upper limit of soil moisture content. |
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