IoT based smart irrigation system

It presents a smart irrigation system, which is used to optimize the usage of water and improve the productivity rate of crops in the Agricultural Sector. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) over the Blynk cloud server, was developed to control and monitor the proposed system. The developed system was evaluated over a period of 7 days and the outcomes were satisfying with a total of 300 ml of water for the 2 irrigations performed over 4 sections of the farm which were represented by 4 containers of 1,728 cubic centimeters each fully filled with Sandy soil. The soil was kept moisturized at an average value of 50%, with an average soil temperature of 29.890 C, and with an average Ph concentration of 6 ppm. The vegetable used for the experiment, going by the name Caixin Green Stem, requires 8 to 12 days for the germination phase and that was achieved within 7 days only. The statistics illustrated that the smart irrigation system performs better than the traditional/manual irrigation method.