PLANT MONITORING SYSTEM WITH AUTONOMOUS IRRIGATION AND

FERTILIZER SUPPLY

BRIGHT CHIP TECHNOLOGIES

Project Centre,Dharmapuri, Tamilnadu

Phone: 9787681446

Abstract

Nowadays, many vegetables are grown inside greenhouses in which environment is

controlled and nutrition can be supplied through water supply using electrical pump,
namely fertigation. Dosage of nutrition in water for many vegetable plants is also
known so that by controlling water supply all the needs for the plants to grow are
available. Furthermore, water supply can be controlled using electrical pump which is
activated according to the plants conditioning relation with water supply.

In order to supply water and nutrition in the right amount and time, plants condition
can be observed using a PH electrode and soil moisture sensor to develop an
autonomous plant watering and fertigation approach. Here we use ATmega
microcontroller and valves for auto control of fertigation and watering for plants by
the sensed soil water and nutrition and accordingly give command to the external
hardware to control the water flow and fertilizer flow control.

Automation is need of future and automation in farming is necessary as there is acute

storage of both fertile land and skilled farmer. Judging the need of crop is quite
difficult as the demand of nutrients changes with age of crop. The growth of a wheat
plant is measured in stages. Understanding the stages of growth is important to help
farmers optimize the yield. The optimum timing of fertilizer, irrigation, herbicide,
insecticide, and fungicide applications are also best determined by crop growth stage
rather than calendar date. This work provide a solution to finding the age of wheat
crop, once the age of crop is found farmer can take precious and calculated step to
enhance their production of wheat or other agricultural product.
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