Development of soil monitoring system using Arduino technology

Nowadays agriculture is an important sector in Malaysian since it provides food sources for the country and contributes raw material to the industrial sector. However, farmers experienced problems in controlling the process manually and also having extra work load especially during peak seasons such as harvesting and sowing. Therefore, the aim of this project is to develop a soil monitoring system in agriculture area using Arduino technology. In this project, three parameters are monitored for vineyard i.e. humidity, temperature and potential of hydrogen (pH) level. Besides, an Andriod application is developed as interface system that integrates Arduino microcontroller and related input/output (I/O) devices. An alert message will be sent to the user using Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) when the soil parameters exceed some limitation values for normal soil condition. A set of data collection is taken from Ladang Anggur Jabatan Pertanian Negeri Perlis to evaluate the performance of the soil monitoring function. Experimented results shows that the normal condition for the vineyard soil parameters are respected to the theoretical values, which are 4.09-7.34, 25.53%-45.85% and 28.9°C-39.3°C for pH, humidity and temperature, respectively.