Flexible and Automated Watering System Using Solar Energy

Nowadays, farmers in the agriculture field facing a lot of problems in pouring the water into their field to keep their crops green especially in summer season. Thus, we need effective technologies to overcome these problems in order to make the work of users easier. This work proposes an automatic plant watering system taking into consideration the technical aspect. Where, solar power is used as the source of power to control the overall system. This embedded system uses the PIC18F452 microcontroller, it depends on the analysis of soil humidity and ambient temperature. When the moisture content of the soil is reduced then the sensor sends detected value to the microcontroller, which activates the corresponding valve. Then the water pump is automatically ON according to the moisture level. The main aim of this paper is to reduce the human intervention for farmers, to give a considerable saving of time and effort with a very low initial.