SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR BASED

IRRIGATION WATER PUMP CONTROLLING SYSTEM

ABSTRACT
This project aims in providing a user friendly, reliable and automated water pumping
system. Now a days technology is running with time, it completely occupied the life style of
human beings. Even though there is such an importance for technology in our routine life
there are even people whose life styles are very far to this well known term technology. So it
is our responsibility to design few reliable systems which can be even efficiently used by
them. This basic idea gave birth to the project sensor based irrigation water pump controller.
Here the automation process is done through the sensor based technology.
In our project we make use of one op amp, which is dedicated at the water pump. The
op amp forms the heart of the device and there are also soil-moisture sensors, which are
meant for detecting the moisture in the soil.

Block diagram:

POWER
SUPPLY

Op-amp

RELAY
WITH
RELAY
DRIVER

SOIL
MOISTURE
sensor

WATER
PUMP

Circuit diagram

WORKING:
Appropriate environmental conditions are necessary for optimum plant growth, improved
Crop yields, and efficient use of water and other resources. Automating the data acquisition
Process of the soil conditions and various climatic parameters that govern plant growth
allows information to be collected at high frequency with less labor requirements. The goal
of the project is to develop irrigation system by continuously monitoring
the soil moisture level on the field. Whenever the soil condition is dry then
the controller automatically ON/OFF the water pump according to Soil

Moisture sensor input.

The objective of this project is to provide a combination of manual supervision and partial
automation and is similar to manual set-up in most respects but it reduces the labor involved
in terms of Irrigation design is simple, easy to install, microcontroller-based circuit to monitor
and record the values of soil moisture (Transistor circuit) environment that are continuously
modified and controlled in order optimize them to achieve maximum plant growth and yield.

COMPONENTS REQUIRED:
1. Op-Amp (741)
2. Relay
3. Water Pump
4. Soil Moisture Sensor ckt
ADVANTAGES:
1. It eliminates the man power
2. Longer distance communication
APPLICATIONS:
1. Agriculture application
2. Chemical laboratories
3. Industrial applications