Neeti Thakur Bisen
Published © GPL3+

Automatic Plant Watering System Using Arduino Uno

This system monitors the moisture of soil and waters it by 5v DC motor based water pump when needed.

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Automatic Plant Watering System Using Arduino Uno

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO
Arduino UNO
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1N4007 – High Voltage, High Current Rated Diode
1N4007 – High Voltage, High Current Rated Diode
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General Purpose Transistor NPN
General Purpose Transistor NPN
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Male/Female Jumper Wires
Male/Female Jumper Wires
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Resistor 221 ohm
Resistor 221 ohm
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5v DC Motor
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Water tube
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Glue gun
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Weter container
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Bread board
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Soil Moisture Sensor
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Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE

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Schematics

Fritzing Diagram of the system

I had used black colored wire for ground, red-colored wire for VCC and blue colored wires for arduino inputs.

Code

Automatic plant watering system code

C/C++
int WATERPUMP = 13; //motor pump connected to pin 13
int sensor = 8; //sensor digital pin vonnected to pin 8
int val; //This variable stores the value received from Soil moisture sensor.

void setup() {
  
  pinMode(13,OUTPUT); //Set pin 13 as OUTPUT pin
  pinMode(8,INPUT); //Set pin 8 as input pin, to receive data from Soil moisture sensor.
  //Initialize serial and wait for port to open:
  Serial.begin(9600); // opens serial port, sets data rate to 9600 bps
  while (! Serial);// wait for serial port to connect. Needed for native USB
  Serial.println("Speed 0 to 255");
}

void loop()
  { 
  if (Serial.available()) //loop to operate motor
  {
    int speed = Serial.parseInt(); // to read the number entered as text in the Serial Monitor 
    if (speed >= 0 && speed <= 255)
    {
      analogWrite(WATERPUMP, speed);// tuns on the motor at specified speed 
    }
  }
  val = digitalRead(8);  //Read data from soil moisture sensor  
  if(val == LOW) 
  {
  digitalWrite(13,LOW); //if soil moisture sensor provides LOW value send LOW value to motor pump and motor pump goes off
  }
  else
  {
  digitalWrite(13,HIGH); //if soil moisture sensor provides HIGH value send HIGH value to motor pump and motor pump get on
  }
  delay(400); //Wait for few second and then continue the loop.
}

Credits

Neeti Thakur Bisen

Neeti Thakur Bisen

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