Smart irrigation system with an Android-based remote logging and control
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Date
2020-07
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Publisher
IEEE
Abstract
In order to eliminate the drudgery associated with
irrigation practice, a smart irrigation system with an Androidbased
mobile application and control system is developed and
tested under the local and cloud server architectures. The
system uses four sensors (moisture content, temperature,
humidity and ultrasonic) to acquire real-time data from the
irrigation site which are fed to the central controller. Wi-Fi
device is used to provide Internet connectivity to a local and
cloud server. A mobile application is developed to display the
four sensor measurements on a user-friendly graphically
interface in real-time as received from the server. The system
automatically starts/stop irrigation pumps based on
measurements received from the soil moisture content sensor
after attaining certain threshold values. Its remote logging
capability makes it possible for users to view on their mobile
phone the status of their farmland such as atmospheric
temperature, humidity, level of water in the reservoir and soil
moisture content from any location, provided Internet access is
available. It also gives the user the flexibility of starting a
pump on the farmland remotely using his mobile device.
Experimental results reveal that the local server is more stable
than the cloud server architecture.
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Staff Publication
Keywords
Smart Irrigation,, Internet of Things,, Arduino,, Cloud computing ,, Blynk, remote logging
Citation
O. K. Ogidan and K. R. Afia, "Smart irrigation system with an Android-based remote logging and control," 2019 IEEE AFRICON, 2019, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/AFRICON46755.2019.9133953.