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SmartFarm

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1. Background & objective of research

Different crops require different environmental or weather conditions to grow properly. Based on research, farmers in Malawi Grow crops randomly without considering what’s best for their crops. Our team is trying to help out farmers in Malawi who have trouble to choose a crop to grow in a particular season. After discussing, we thought of making a system that will recommend farmers what to grow based on soil moisture content (humidity) and temperature of the environment.

2. Setting Up the Arduino

  1. Requirements and Tools
    • Arduino Uno
    • Breadboard
    • Male and Female Jumper Wires
    • DHT11 Temperature and Humidity
    • ESP8266-01 Wi-Fi Module
    • Soil Moisture Sensor V2

  2. Download Arduino Uno IDE HERE.

  3. Set up the components as the Circuit Diagram below

Set Up the ESP8266 module and DHT11

  1. Connect the Moisture Sensor to A2 pin of the Arduino

  2. Go to thingspeak.com and create a free account for cloud hosting of the data

  3. Create Channels and Fields on thingspeak.com as below:

Set Up the channels and fields

  1. Set-up the Wi-Fi network and change the SSID and password in the Code file above

  2. You’re almost done setting Up

  3. Use the Following for reference to setup Channels,fields, reactors and apps on thingSpeak.com thingspeak.com

  4. Code for Matlab Analysis https://thingspeak.com/apps/matlab_analyses/124838/edit

  5. final diagram and how it will work Set Up of system

  6. after set-up everything above, head to ifttt.com and create a webhooks applet and put the trigger url on thingSpeak server on ThingsHttp to send an email to the farmer once the conditions are meant. The email sent to farmer consists of instructions on how he/she can read the results from the system.

  7. The SmartFarm recomendation document can be found here

3. Reference websites

  1. https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/AhmedAzouz/rory-the-robot-plant-f7e74b?ref=tag&ref_id=plants&offset=0
  2. https://www.instructables.com/id/Automated-FARM-Arduino-fanlightswater-Pump
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjufbgOBYo&t=499s
  4. Setting up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XEe0HY0j6k&t=194s
  5. https://www.circuito.io/app?components=512,10167,11021,13322,13678




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