Automated Irrigation and Water Level Management System Using Raspberry PI
Sfiso H Nkosi, S.P. Daniel Chowdhury · 2018 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica · 2018
Adequate Irrigation improves food security crisis, maintains parks and sport-fields in good condition. The city of Cape Town in South Africa is currently experiencing water scarcity due to lack of rainfall. This has been affecting all living beings and plants. So, an Automated Irrigation and Water Level Management System is proposed using Raspberry Pi. The main objective of the project is to try minimizing the human intervention (gardeners) and try improving the usage of water during irrigation, also prevent water storage from drying out and overflowing. This is done by providing a system that will solely operate automatically. The proposed System will also help in reducing municipality water bills, save energy, improve the irrigation method for farmers (commercial and residential). This is because irrigation will only take place when it is needed. A web server is developed using node red dashboard which gives access to the user to check all the process information of the system. Through the webserver one can access information such as soil status (dry nor wet), water level status, temperature & humidity status and email notification. Android smart phone or laptop can be used to access this information (display purpose) from the dashboard, they just must be connected to the same network as the system.