Intelligent Irrigation-System for Farmer

Submitted To:
Ms. Aparna Bhat

Submitted by:
Hari Laxman M (08EC23) Mahesh Vadde (08EC34) Manoj U (08EC36)

ABSTRACT
Objective
The Intelligent Irrigation System plays vital role to troubleshoot problems with manual switching water pumps used in farms. It provides instant switching of water pump through GSM mobile network.

Introduction
Now days in most of the villages due to Load shedding there is irregular electricity supply to water pump. In most of the cases the water pumps are 2 to 3 km away from the farm. Due to electricity failure a farmer must go every time near to pump controller to turn ON/OFF the pump. This problem becomes most serious during night time. Also delay in the process of water pump switching causes wastage of electricity, water as well as time.

What is Drawback of Manual Switching?

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The manual switching is beneficial only if the user is always nearer to the hardware switching system and the load. But most of the time user is far away from the switching environment. Also many devices turns off due to instant power cut off. It is not good practice to always go near the switching mechanism to manually turn on the switch which turned off due to such type of power cut action. In order to remove this drawback though auto-starter facility is available, it is necessary to go near to the switching station to turn off the switch. Nowadays timer circuits are available, but in most of the cases the operation time of the load is not fixed. So due to use of timer circuit there may be unloaded operation of device if operation of the device is finished before predetermined time. If switching station is far away from the user, then these problems becomes most serious and unnecessarily causes wastage of resources. Along with these problems there is no facility for protection from unauthorized user access to the system switching.

Operation
i. GSM network GSM stands for Global System for Mobile Communication. It provides the network service for communication to both user & controller side mobile phone. User side mobile phone User sends the accessing commands to the Pump control unit using his mobile phone. Users mobile phone also plays the received voice feedback messages from Pump control system. Controller side mobile phone Controller uses this mobile phone to detect presence of call & users commands (in the form of DTMF code) from headset output. Also voice feedback messages are put on the Mic i/p of this mobile. Ring detector When user make the call, at that time the presence of ring on receiver mobile phone is detected by this circuit to inform the controller that user wants to access the system. DTMF decoder When user enters his choice, the decoder IC8870 decodes the choice & equivalent binary no. is available on its O/p (Q1 to Q4). Whenever new code comes, the DTMF decoder will pulse low (STB pin) & informing microcontroller that codes are available please take them. Speech circuit All the voice messages required to inform the user about controlling action are stored in the voice ROM (IC APR 9600). As per the trigger and control i/p from microcontroller, speech circuit put respective voice message on the mic i/p of controller side mobile phone. Controller Micro-controller keeps co-ordination among all peripherals. Whenever call is detected it takes controlling action according to users choice and plays respective voice messages for users acknowledgment. It also provides controlling signal for switching circuit as per electricity status & user choice.

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Switching Circuit It is basically a driver circuit which provides the making and breaking of ac mains to the water pump as per signal from controller. It consists of electromechanical relay and relay driver (IC2803) to drive it. Water Pump Water Pump is a load which is to be controlled by intelligence of microcontroller based system. AC mains detector This block detects the presence of AC mains. Controller checks the status of this block before providing ON switching signal to the Water pump. Also availability of electricity can be judged from this block.

Why use Intelligent Irrigation System?

i. ii. iii. Manual switching is not beneficial if user is far away from switching station. Timer based switching circuits are beneficial if duration of load operation is fixed. But most of the cases it is not fixed. General remote switching facility provides the efficient solution for these problems. But it is also affected with the parameter range of operation. Intelligent Irrigation System provides the exact solution for these problems. It uses the intelligence of microcontroller along with the powerful peripherals. It uses GSM network which is nowadays available in most of the places. It also provides password protection facility to protect the system from unauthorized use. It not on provides the remote switching of the system but also provides the status of system & electricity to the user. The system provides instant access along with uncommon voice interaction facility.

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