Design and Implementation of a Smart Controller in Agriculture for Improved Productivity

Year 2018, Volume: 18 Issue: 1, 45 - 51, 23.02.2018

V Sravani Santhosh K V Sanjay Bhargava Verina D’almeida

Abstract

Agricultural produce
significantly depends on many crop parameters such as humidity, pH,
temperature, sunlight, microbial activity, soil ions, air quality, and water
quality. A higher production of crop can be achieved via maintaining all these
parameters in the desired range. A smart system was developed to control the
environmental parameters in the desired range via incorporating a multisensor
to measure the parameters such as humidity, temperature, and sunlight; in
addition, also a suitable controller was designed to control these parameters
in the desired range. Sensors were placed to continuously monitor the field
parameters such as temperature, humidity, sunlight, and soil moisture. All
these parameters were remotely acquired using ZigBee to PC through myRIO boards.
Fuzzy-based controllers were designed to operate the actuators to maintain the
set point. The designed system on implementation was tested on a real-life
model. The results show that the proposed technique maintained the parameters
at the desired state and reduced human intervention and labor.

Keywords

Agriculture, fuzzy, humidity, light, soil moisture, temperature

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