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Appropriate soil water level is a necessary pre-requisite for optimum plant growth.
Also,
water is an essential element for life sustenance, there is the necessity to avoid
its
undue usage. Irrigation is a dominant consumer of water. This calls for the need to
)
regulate water supply for irrigation purposes. Fields should neither be over-irrigated
nor under-irrigated. Over time, systems have
been implemented towards realizing
this objective of which automated processes are the most popular as they allow in
formation to be collected at high frequency with less labor requirements. Bulk of the
existing systems employ micro-processor based systems. These systems offer several
technological
advantages but are unaffordable, bulky, difficult to maintain and less
accepted
by the technologically unskilled workers in the rural scenario. In this thesis
we have designed and simulated a soil moisture sensor which automatically monitors
and controls the moisture level of a soil which is mainly aimed to cater to the needs
of technologically unskilled
rural farmers and to show we can develop indigenous au
tomatic soil moisture sensors which is cost effective and simple to use by the wider
farmer
population instead of expensive and microprocessor-based ones.
Key Words; Sensor, Irrigation and NAND |
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