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Design and Development of Low-cost Microcontroller Based Automatic Irrigation System for Orchard and Field Crops (2017 - 2018)

M Z Hasan,
Farm Machinery and postharvest Processing Engineering Division

M A Haque,
Farm Machinery and postharvest Processing Engineering Division

K F I Murad and
Farm Machinery and postharvest Processing Engineering Division

M G Rahman
Farm Machinery and postharvest Processing Engineering Division

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

An experiment is going on at Hill Agricultural Research Station, Khagrachari to develop automatic irrigation system afordable for medium and marginal farmers to apply exact amount of water at the right time with minimum involvement of human labours. These systems will work based on Arduino open-source microcontroller. Soil moisture sensor, sonar sensor and PIR motion sensor will be used along with relevant electronic components. Primary goal is to build a prototype and on the basis of laboratory observations proper modifications will be made to set in the fields. In the first year essential and basic components have been procured including both software and hardware. Prototypes will be built in the coming year.

Keywords: Irrigation

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Program Area: Farm Mechanization

Commodity: Farm machineries

Objectives:

This programme was undertaken to design and develop affordable microcontroller based automatic irrigation systems for orchard and field crops.

Methodology:

The experiment has been planned to base on open source microcontroller Arduino. The Arduino microcontroller is an easy to use yet powerful single board computer that has gained considerable traction in the hobby and professional market. The Arduino is open source, which means hardware is reasonably priced and development software is free. The experiment will be set according to the diagram. A circuit diagram of the water pump controller is attached. In the first stage the systems will require some manual operations. But in the later stages these will be upgraded to curb manual handling.

Source of Information: Annual Research Report (2017 - 2018), Farm Machinery and postharvest Processing Engineering Division

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Achievement/Findings:

This experiment, if successfully implemented, has the potential of changing the irrigation scenario of Bangladesh. The existing traditional methods should be upgraded to keep pace with rest of the world. In order to do this there is no other way except adopting cutting-edge technologies. The present experiment is at primary state and it will be continued in the following years to get complete sets of automatic irrigation systems.

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