Project Thesis

؜Our project is an smart automatic irrigation system that uses the amount of rainfall in tandem with the soil moisture levels to deliver pin point accurate irrigation.Our client currently has no way to read her soil moisture level or get an exact measurement on how much she's watering. On the website we created, the plants above or below the ideal soil moisture level are highlighted red. Christine can also see how much rain fell in the last day.

Precedents

Looks like Precedents

Works like Precedents

؜Traditional Precedents

Systems Diagram

Vegetable Garden

Humans

Bugs

Soil

Weather

Weeds

Customers

Microbial

Activity

؜Proposed solution

After meeting with Christine for the first time, we decided to work on water consumption efficiency and cutting down on labor.

We were considering a snow collection system.

Client interaction 1

Client interaction 2

Talking to Christine for a second time we decided to focus on an automatic irrigation system with cost in mind.

To save money, we're using the existing irrigation system and adding only automation and data collection.

User Interaction Plan

؜ Initial prototypes

User interation platform

Mosture sensor prototype

Final project and pump

Soil mostuire sensor and rain gauge with automatic dumper

Next Steps

؜Activate the servo system

Integrate and test the system into the actual farm

Create database for rainfall

Make the entire system wireless

Project Thesis

؜Our project is an automatic irrigation system that uses rainfall and moisture sensors to deliver the exact amount of water needed to hydrate the plants. We chose this project because Christine said she wanted an automatic irrigation system. To do this, we will use a rain gauge and a buoy on a linear pramator to detect how much water has fallen. Next we use a moisture sensor in the soil to deliver the correct amount of water from the hose with a built in pump.

Precedents

Looks like Precedents

Works like Precedents

؜Traditional Precedents

Systems Diagram

Proposed Solution

؜This helps the environment by saving unnecessary water when the quota has been reached, which is one inch per week we

are also hydrating the plants, which is necessary for them

We will be using AI to send the sensors outputs and we are using AI to allow them to read each other. The sensors also use AI to deliver an output to the hose.

Compartive anlysis

Soil moisture sensors $72

Water level sensor $5

Servos $100

؜Price

؜Traditional automatic irrigation system cost $2,000-$4,500

؜Smart

؜Our system uses combined data from the moisture sensor and the rain level sensor to give you a pinpoint accurate amount of water in the soil. Other auto irrigation systems do not make informed decisions. They certainly do not have the same accuracy as ours. This smart irrigation systems only uses the water that plants need saving water and helping the ecosystem.

System

Prototypes

Mosture sensor prototype

Cleaning out segical tubing

Symutalting rain fall to test a desgin aspect of the rain gauge

Prototypes

Pest detection using teachable machine

CAD'ing the rain gauge

؜Testing the Rain gauge

Prototypes

؜Making a bouy system

؜New CAD for rain guage

User Interaction Plan

8.30 - 10 AM

10.15 - 11.30 AM

In Studio Break

Lunch

11.30 AM - 12.30 PM

12.30 - 1.30 PM

Monday

؜Tuesday

؜Friday

؜Wednesday

؜Thursday

Project Calendar

Present Midterm Presentations

Sythesis Feedback

؜Practice the Mid term presentation and set up funnel for basic raingauge

Continue prototyping Rain gauge system whith the funnel

Present to Cristian our project Proposal

؜3D print new rain gauge after we update its design

Test the rain gauge

؜Think about the hose with the spiget and sketch gereral ideas

Create a spigot and work on the hose system with the segical tubing/ figure out all the factors of the hose part.

Finalize the bouy system design

Stat the bulind process of it

؜Compete and test it

؜map out where the sensors are going to go and how the rain gauge will be mounted

Continue problem fixing and full profing

And then start figuring out electronics

8.30 - 10 AM

10.15 - 11.30 AM

In Studio Break

Lunch

11.30 AM - 12.30 PM

12.30 - 1.30 PM

Monday

؜Tuesday

؜Friday

؜Wednesday

؜Thursday

Project Calendar

؜Time to work on things we may be behind on

Time to work on things we may be behind on

Code the rain gauge sensor

Code the rain gauge sensor

؜Code the soil moisture sensor

؜Code the soil moisture sensor

؜Code the soil moisture sensor

Code everything back to the brain

Code everything back to the brain

Work on a user interface set up

Work on a user interface set up

Fix any tweaks

Set up actual curcit

Water proofing

Final presentation work

Final presnetation work

Feedback

؜How do you think we could improve the user platform?

Do you have any other ideas for us?

Do you have any good spots to put the rain gauge?

How many rows do you have?

How does your preexisting irrigation system work?

Do you have a good place for a rain gauge?