Elijah Scheele
Published © GPL3+

Connected Soil Moisture Sensor

Simple Arduino/Genuino 101 BLE connected soil moisture sensor. Pair with IoT service to monitor and record measurements.

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Connected Soil Moisture Sensor

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino 101
Arduino 101
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Soil Moisture Sensor
Can also use Sparkfun's moisture sensor
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Resistor 10k ohm
Resistor 10k ohm
Pullup for analog input.
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Schematics

Soil Moisture Sensor Layout

Fritzing layout of basic soil moisture sensor.

Code

Soil Moisure Sensor Arduino/Genuino 101 Code

Arduino
Upload the code to your Arduino/Genuino 101. Use an app like nRF Connect or write your own BLE code to read/receive updated values for the soil moisture sensor.
#include <BLEAttribute.h>
#include <BLECentral.h>
#include <BLECharacteristic.h>
#include <BLECommon.h>
#include <BLEDescriptor.h>
#include <BLEPeripheral.h>
#include <BLEService.h>
#include <BLETypedCharacteristic.h>
#include <BLETypedCharacteristics.h>
#include <BLEUuid.h>
#include <CurieBLE.h>

//Soil sensor analog input pin
const int soilPin = A0;

BLEPeripheral blePeripheral;

//Soil Service and Characteristic - Custom UUID
BLEService soilService("19B10030-E8F2-537E-4F6C-D104768A1214");
BLEIntCharacteristic soilCharacteristic("19B10031-E8F2-537E-4F6C-D104768A1214", BLERead | BLENotify);





void setup() {
  //Set peripheral name and advertised services.
  blePeripheral.setLocalName("SoilSense");
  blePeripheral.setAdvertisedServiceUuid(soilService.uuid());
  blePeripheral.addAttribute(soilService);
  blePeripheral.addAttribute(soilCharacteristic);
  //set initial soil value to 0
  soilCharacteristic.setValue(0);
  //start peripheral
  blePeripheral.begin();
}

void loop() {
  //poll peripheral and read/set value
  blePeripheral.poll();
  int soilValue = analogRead(soilPin);
  Serial.println(soilValue);
  boolean soilChanged = (soilCharacteristic.value() != soilValue);

  if (soilChanged) {
    soilCharacteristic.setValue(soilValue);
  }
  //delay
  delay(500);
 }

Credits

Elijah Scheele

Elijah Scheele

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