Design and Implementation of Intelligent Irrigation System using Wireless Sensor Network

Agriculture is considered the spine of Indian economy and water harvesting is the foundation to prosper agriculture. Through the decades, a step-up in the usage of water by industrial units and during irrigation has brought India closer to water famine country. To manage the water resources efficiently, the focus has to be shifted towards agriculture because according to the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Indian farm sector alone consumes 83% of all water use. This project aims to solve the water wastage problem in the country by using an automated irrigation system with the aid of a wireless sensor network. Wireless sensor network can be utilized to remotely monitor the parameters such as temperature, humidity, soil moisture, pH and productivity of plant growth on the greenhouse environment by matching the sensor devices with the wireless technologies. In existing system, automatic plant irrigation systems are based upon soil conditions, temperature conditions and humidity conditions. This project provides the practical solution for real time agriculture management system using wireless data flow control, remote monitoring along with automatic fertilizer and water irrigation for each node assigned and the data can be acquired using LabVIEW with respect to the user provided set values, equivalent control commands is transmitted form remote area unit to control area. After the control action the node unit keeps on monitoring the chamber the status is updated with the help of LabVIEW.