Solar Power Based Agriculture Robot for Pesticide Spraying, Grass Cutting and Seed Sowing (original) (raw)

IoT and Solar Energy Based Multipurpose Agricultural Robot for Smart Farming

In India, nearly 70% of people depend on agriculture. In the agricultural field, various operations such as seed sowing, grass cutting, pesticide spraying, ploughing are carried out. Automation of agricultural operations is a current demand to increase productivity through the use of tools and technology. At the moment seed sowing, pesticide spraying, and grass cutting are all difficult tasks. The equipment needed for the aforementioned actions is both expensive and inconvenient to use. As a result, India's agricultural system should be advanced through the development of a system that reduces reliance on human labour and time. The proposed agricultural robot is a user-friendly, Internet of Things (IoT)-based system that can be used in any type of soil. Users can use a web page to monitor the crop's condition as well as perform some specific operations. The objective of this project is to design, develop, and build a robot that can sow seeds, cut grass, spray pesticides, pluck fruit, and detect soil nutrition levels and irrigation. Solar energy is used to power the entire system. By connecting through wireless modules. the designed model can be controlled via a web page. The web page is used to control the robot's required mechanism and movement. This improves the efficiency of seed sowing, pesticide spraying, grass cutting, fruit plucking, soil nutrition level detection, and irrigation, as well as reducing the need for manual planting.

SOLAR POWERED AGRIBOT FOR FARM MONITORING USING INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT

IAEME PUBLICATION, 2020

The world is facing a major water crisis right now and this issue can escalate even further in future, so it is of utmost importance to use this resource as optimistically as possible right now to conserve this resource in future. Also a developing country like India has many constraints in supplying energy and ample of water to the farmers for irrigation purposes especially in semi-arid regions. Thinking about the abundance of sunlight in India, this paper discusses about the design and development of solar powered Agribot for farm monitoring using IoT that also mechanizes irrigation system. The Agribot is developed using an Arduino microcontroller which is programmed such that it detects obstacles and moves accordingly around the farm and measures the moisture level in the siol using soil moisture sensor which gives a brief prediction about the water needed in that area. The raw data is uploaded in the cloud using IoT for further analysis.

Solar Powered Autonomous Multipurpose Agricultural Robot Using Bluetooth/Android App

In India nearly about 70 percentage of people are depending on agriculture. Numerous operations are performed in the agricultural field like seed sowing, grass cutting, ploughing etc. The present methods of seed sowing, pesticide spraying and grass cutting are difficult. The equipment's used for above actions are expensive and inconvenient to handle. So the agricultural system in India should be encouraged by developing a system which will reduce the man power and time. This work aims to design, develop and design of the robot which can sow the seeds, cut the grass and spray the pesticides, this whole system is powered by solar energy. The designed robot gets energy from solar panel and is operated using Bluetooth/Android App which sends the signals to the robot for required mechanisms and movement of the robot. This increases the efficiency of seed sowing, pesticide spraying and grass cutting and also reduces the problem encountered in manual planting.

AGROSMART : A Real-Time Cultivation Predication Robot System using IoT

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2022

Agriculture is the primary source of income for approximately 70% of Indians. As a result, India's agricultural system should be upgraded in order to lessen farmers' efforts. In the agricultural field, various activities such as sowing, weeding, weed cutting, ploughing, and so on are carried out. Seeding, ploughing, and weed eradication are all very fundamental and important operations. However, the current sowing, ploughing, and plant cutting procedures are troublesome. Seed sowing machinery is quite tough and inconvenient to operate. As a result, the need to build equipment that would lessen the farmers' efforts. During sowing, this method employs a monitoring system that seeks to fall seeds at a certain location with the set spacing between both seeds and lines. Weed control is aided by the robotic arm. As a result, in this automatic machine, the flaws of the present system will be successfully eliminated.

IJERT-Agriculture based on Robot using Raspberry Pi

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2020

https://www.ijert.org/agriculture-based-on-robot-using-raspberry-pi https://www.ijert.org/research/agriculture-based-on-robot-using-raspberry-pi-IJERTCONV8IS07007.pdf The purpose of this paper is to provide a complete irrigation solution to the farmer with use of internet of things (IoT). To create a cost effective automated irrigation system to reduce water's waste is a challenge. It is important to measure different parameters to calculate the efficient quantity of water for plants. The proposed system is composed of different types of low cost and low power consumption sensors. For example-soil moisture sensor, temperature sensor. Setup of Raspberry Pi with sensors is used to control opening of the irrigation valve. Smart phone is used for a remote monitoring. The all sensors are interfacing into the raspberry pi. The soil moisture sensor is used for measure the soil moisture level. The moisture level value is also send to the person mobile using webpage. The PH sensor is used for measure the PH value. The water pump is used for the moisture level is decreases the water pump is automatically sprayed. The motor is used for robot movement. The camera is used for detect the leaf diseases by using raspberry pi.

Solar Powered Multipurpose Agriculture Robot

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023

In India, more than 60 percent of the people works in agriculture as their main job. Due to a growing lack of workers, there is now more interest in developing robots and other self-driving cars for use in agriculture. A robot called a "agriculture robot" has been made to reduce the amount of work farmers have to do and to speed up and improve the quality of their work. The goal of the proposed system is to make a multipurpose autonomous agricultural robotic vehicle that can be controlled through Bluetooth. This vehicle could be used for sowing seeds, cutting grass, ploughing, detecting soil moisture, spraying pesticides, and detecting leaf diseases with a Raspberry Pi and suggesting what kind of pesticides should be used for that disease. Autonomous cars are used so that people don't have to do as much work. This leads to a higher yield and better use of resources.

Internet Of Things Based Innovative Agriculture Automation Using AGRIBOT

This paper strives to develop a robot capable of performing operations like automatic ploughing, seed dispensing, fertilizing and harvesting. This agribot can be monitored continuously with the mobile camera attached. Smart agriculture is essential for the economic growth which can be done by modernizing the current traditional methods of agriculture by using the latest Internet of Things(IoT) technology. The main component here is the Arduino UNO microcontroller that supervises the entire process. The robot tills the entire field and proceeds to ploughing, then dispenses seeds side by side, sprays fertilizer and at the later stages harvests the same. The mobile camera is used for the live video coverage. The WiFi module updates the message on the server. Farmers today spend a lot of money on various things but this helps them decrease labor and increase yield of crops but the profit and efficiency are very great. Hence automation is the ideal solution to overcome all the shortcomings by creating machines that perform multiple operations and automating it to increase yield on a large scale.

Low-Cost and Highly Efficient Automated Agribot using IoT

IJCSIS Vol. 18 No. 8 August Issue, 2020

Agribot is a robot developed using ARM LPC2148 which performs elementary functions like ploughing, sowing, water sprinkling, leveling and pesticide sprinkling simultaneously. It operates in automatic and manual mode. IoT enables the utilization of TCP/IP web- app to control agricultural processes. IR sensor detects the obstacle during its movement. Temperature is sensed for any variations to ensure proper growth of plant. The optimal temperature range is set to 22°C-33°C. The threshold resistance for determining moisture level is 700. The pump is switched on automatically based on moisture level. pH sensor is used to detect the pH of soil. Most of the crops grow well in slightly acidic conditions of pH range 5.5-7.0. NPK value required for choosing appropriate fertilizer is determined. The amount of NPK is displayed in percentage in the format “N: 25 P: 25 K: 50”. The crop suitable for the particular type of soil is determined. Keywords—Agribot; seeding; GPS;IoT;ploughing; leveling; sensors; TCP/IP tool; Wi-Fi; Zigbee

Agricultural Machine Automation Using Iot Through Android

Journal of Electrical Engineering and Automation, 2019

The agriculture still remains the fundamental source of livelihood for fifty percentage of the Indian population. It is most significant sector of the Indian economy as eighteen percentage of the India’s Gross domestic product is accounted from Indian Agricultural sectors. The government concentrates on enhancing the GDP of the Agricultural products by the applying the latest methodologies and the advanced technologies. All the emerging technologies can help out in increasing the yield crops by maintaining the suitable conditions for the crop growth. The proposed method in the paper utilizes the android application to automate the machines that are used in the agriculture with the help of internet of things. The machine automation ensures that the works are done automatically without any human intervention.

Design and implementation of agrobot by using IoT

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCE RESEARCH, IDEAS AND INNOVATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY

Many advances in technology have made the agriculture business a much less labor-intensive industry. Farmers are looking for new ways to implement technology to cut costs and reduce labor hours. One of the ways that farmers are beginning to explore new technologies in farming come from the automatic machines. Internet of Things (IoT) technology has brought revolution to each and every field of common man's life by making everything smart and intelligent. IoT refers to a network of things which make a self-configuring network. The Agriculture stick being proposed via this paper is integrated with Adriano Technology, Here we use two applications to show the working of the robot which is going to do crop harvesting and fertilizing in real-time manner. Other accessories are slaves performing specific operations. The approach is now to develop smarter machines that are intelligent enough to work in an unmodified or semi-natural environment.