BUSINESS PLAN PROPOSAL
“Self-activating Plant Watering with Arduino”
INTRODUCTION:
Everyone of us likes a little greenery in our houses, don’t we? Plants require really low
maintenance and can be left for days without supervision but our long trips extending over a week
or 2 can be detrimental for the health of plants due to the lack of moisture in the soil. In such
situations, the plant may wither or die due to the absence of proper watering. In order to solve this
problem, in this project, we are making an Automatic Irrigation System with an Arduino Uno which
will irrigate your plants automatically and keep them healthy even when you are out of the town for
weeks or months. In this project, a Moisture sensor will be used to maintain the optimum level of
moisture for your plants. This system can be implemented, both for your garden or for your Indoor
plants thus taking care of your leafy pets when you are away.
The logic of this system is very simple. In this system, the moisture sensor senses the
moisture level of the soil and when the sensor senses a low moisture level it automatically
switches the water pump with the help of a microcontroller and irrigates the plant. After supplying
sufficient water, the soil gets retains the moisture hence automatically stopping the pump.
TARGET MARKET:
People nowadays are too busy with their work. Most of them tend to focus on something
until they neglect their home task such as watering the plant. This is because people do not know
how to manage their time properly. Here by, the effective solution to this problem is to design an
automatic and notification plant watering system. By using this system, it will notify the user and
the feedback from this notification will start automatically watering the plant. From the problem
faced, we come out to design an Automatic Plant Watering System.
This project is use to keep plants watered automatically by sending notifications to the user.
The focus group of this system is for people who are always busy and cannot manage their time
properly to water their own plant.
TECHNICAL ASPECT:
The project requires very few components and the connection is also very simple. The
components are listed below:
Arduino * 1
moisture sensor * 1
5v relay module * 1
6v Mini water pump with small pipe * 1
Connecting wires
5v battery * 1
Procedure in making the Product:
In this section, I will explain all the details with the help of the
schematic diagram. The Arduino UNO is the brain of this whole
project. It controls the motor pump according to the moisture in
the soil which is given by the moisture sensor.
To power the circuit, I am using an external Battery. You can
use any 9v or 12-volt battery. The battery is connected to the Vin and ground pins of Arduino and
we can also connect the motor to this battery via a relay. Moisture sensor output is connected to
the analog pin of Arduino. Do remember to use the Arduino’s 5volt pin to power the sensor and
relay module.
Let's start with connecting the relay to the Arduino board.
Connect the VCC of the relay module to the 5v pin of the
Arduino and connect the ground of the relay to the ground of
Arduino. Now connect the relay signal pin to any digital pin of
Arduino except pin 13.
The next step is to connect the soil moisture sensor with the Arduino. Connect the VCC and gnd of
the sensor to the 5volt and ground pin of the Arduino. The analogue output of the sensor connects
to any analogue pin of the Arduino, here I’ve connected it to pin A0 (according to our program).
Finally, connect the pump to the relay module. A relay module has 3 connection points which are
common, normally closed, and normally open. We have to connect the pump positive to common
and connect the normally open pin to the positive of the battery. You have to select the battery as
per your pump. The next step is to connect the ground of the pump to the ground of the Arduino
and finally, connect the small hose to the water pump.
Now connect the battery to the circuit and if the pump starts working then your circuit is okay.
Name: CHRISTIAN MART A. SONCIO
Section: BSCE – 3A
