Agro Fossil Free - Results of a simulation to propose an automated irrigation & monitoring system in crop production using fast charging & solar charge controller

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In daily operations related to farming or gardening, watering is the most important cultural practice. Especially in rice cultivation huge amount of water is used. In conventional method continuous standing water is kept above paddy field during whole growing period of rice crop, though it is not necessary to keep continuous standing water in the field. The alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) irrigation systems are a modern technology which saves water as well as increases crop yield. This AWD is being practiced manually in Bangladesh. This proposed model aims to make the AWD irrigation system into automated AWD irrigation system. However huge amount of electric power and fuel are being consumed by irrigation system in the country. The other aims of the proposed model are use of renewable energy instead of electric and fuel energy to save and secure future resources. To fulfil the country's feed, enhance the economy and develop availability of water automation in AWD is an essential requirement. Smart irrigation system occupies an exact amount of water at the correct location. It saves time and decreases hard work. It also makes a country self-sufficient in the food section. The traditional watering system is long time consumed where automation in AWD mitigate the time duration. It can also sense the weather behavior. During the rainy season it checks the possibility of rain and acts like that with help of the multi-level sensors. So, it can improve production efficiency as well. For this reason, an automatic irrigation control system has been designed with sensors, solar panels, fast charger, and battery. The sensors detect the dynamic water above and below ground surface. All this set up is controlled by Arduino microcontroller. Online Wi-fi ESP8266 module is used to control automated online monitoring to get feedback from sensors. A fast charger is used as back up part in AWD method. This whole circuit is more efficient and works automatically and manually.