SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING AND

REPORTING SYSTEM
TEAM MEMBERS

• AMAN GUPTA
• NITIN NEGI
• BHAVYA PANDEY
• RAHUL PAHUJA

SUBMITTED TO :
DR. SANJEEV KUMAR
 CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• OBJECTIVE
• HARDWARE REQUIRED
• BLOCK DIAGRAM
• DESCRIPTION OF BLOCK DIAGRAM
• DESCRIPTION OF HARDWARE
• CONNECTING DIAGRAM
• WORKING
• APPLICATION
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
 INTRODUCTION
Soil Moisture Sensor as the name suggest ,can detect amount of moisture in
soil (roots of a plant) while a GSM module is a chip or circuit that will be used
to establish communication between a mobile device or a computing
machine and a GSM or GPRS system.
And both Soil Moisture Sensor and GSM module are compatible with Arduino
UNO, hence both of them can be coded as per our convenience.
 OBJECTIVE
To notify the caretaker about the moisture or
irrigational needs of the soil through a
continuous monitoring process via SMS.
HARDWARE
REQUIRED
Arduino UNO(Fig 1)
Fig 1:Arduino UNO Fig 2:Soil Moisture
Sensor
Soil Moisture Sensor(Fig 2)

GSM Module Sim900(Fig 3)

Jumper wires(Fig 4)

Fig 3:GSM Module Fig 4:Jumper Wires

BLOCK DIAGRAM
 DESCRIPTION OF BLOCK DIAGRAM
1.SENSOR CIRCUIT

• YL-69 MOISTURE SENSOR(PROBES)

 This is an Electrical resistance Sensor. The sensor is made up of two electrodes. This soil
moisture sensor reads the moisture content around it. A current is passed across the
electrodes through the soil and the resistance to the current in the soil determines the
soil moisture. If the soil has more resistance so moisture will be low and thus more
current will pass through. On the other hand when the soil moisture is low the sensor
module outputs a high level of resistance.
 YL – 38 INTERFACE FOR YL-69 PROBES

• The sensor comes with a small PCB board fitted

with LM393 comparator chip and a
potentiometer.

• Output signal Pins (Both Analog and Digital).

• Input Power pins for the sensor is also present

on this PCB.
 2.ARDUINO UNO

 The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based

on the ATmega328 (datasheet). It has 14 digital
input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM
outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic
resonator,a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP
header, and a reset button.
 3.GSM MODULE
• GSM is used to establish communication
Between a computer and a GSM system.

• GSM module consists of a GSM/GPRS modem

assembled together with power supply circuit
and communication interfaces (like RS-232, USB,
etc) for computer.
 4.MOBILE STATION

• According to the terminology of 2G systems

like GSM, A mobile station (MS) comprises
all user equipment and software needed for
communication with a mobile network. The
term refers to the global system connected
to the mobile network, i.e. a mobile phone
CONNECTING
DIAGRAM
WORKING
• The probe is inserted in to a given soil sample.
• The soil sensor will read the value of resistivity from the soil.
• This value is then fed in to the A0 pin of the micro-controller.
• The code written in Arduino will fetch the value of A0 pin,
according to which soil moisture content can be calculated .
• Program in Arduino will act as a comparator.
• If the moisture content of the soil drops below a certain minimum
threshold value then the GSM module came in to action.
• GSM module will send a SMS to the care taker of the plant to add
some water to the plant.
• And if the water is not added to the plant after the 30 minutes of
the first message then it will send the SMS again.
 APPLICATIONS
1.Household Gardening and Horticulture
2.Agriculture
3.Smart Irrigation System
4.Sports
 CONCLUSION
• Resistance values of dry soil are more compared to resistance of wet
soil because the conductivity of soil increases due to increase in
movement of ions in wet soil.

• The low cost of equipment and the simple procedure of our method
are significant when compared other methods.

• Appropriate time of water supply to reach crop roots which can

improve cost efficiency and water resource management.
 REFERENCE
S.No. LINK

1. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7586312

2. http://lowtech.propositions.org.uk/lowtech-sensors-and-actuators.pdf

3. https://arduino-info.wikispaces.com
THANK YOU
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