Plant watering system using GSM and soil moisture sensor / Norhamizan Ismail & Mohd. Mu'izzuddin Abdul Razak

Nowadays, gardeners and plant enthusiasts alike are all facing the same troubles that come with picking up gardening. The problems include insufficient time for gardening, garden watering inaccessibility, and equipment inefficiency in other plant irrigation systems. The objective of this project is to make garden watering more efficient and practical, allow gardeners to have time to take care of their plants, and overcome the technical limitations. of previous irrigation systems. This project focuses on garden maintenance by analyzing the moisture of the soil in a set of intervals. If the dryness of the soil ( which is determined by measuring the soil bulk permittivity) meets the predetermined value, it will send a message to the user's cellphone informing the user that the plant's soil is dry. Then, the owner shall decide whether to water the plant or not by replying to the text message. Further improvements might include individual plant irrigation, solar panel implementation or even garden management through smart phone application. This project features an Arduino microcontroller, specifically the Arduino Soil Sensor, a GSM unit, and a water pump system. To be exact, the project allows the gardener to determine how much water is to be watered onto the plants.