IoT-based Farming Robot

摘要

The tremendous demand for water in the agricultural sector in Saudi Arabia poses a great challenge to the government. Bluntly regulating the water supply to farms as a solution for this challenge is not an option, because farming is one of the most important businesses, and it should not be threatened. A substantial percentage of that demanded water is wasted due to manual or inefficient farming, which does not utilize sensors and new technologies to conserve water consumption in the farming process. This project introduces the conspicuous solution, which is an automated, data logging farming system, to achieve efficient, water-conserving farming process. This project combines sensors and automation that introduce efficiency and convenience to a scalable system that will help not only the government and the industries, but also individuals who are interested in farming or simply want to have quick and inexpensive access to fresh crops. The project utilizes a soil moisture sensor to continuously measure the water content of the soil in the system, and supplies the plants with the exact amount of water they need, only when the moisture level is low. The system has been implemented and tested using an Arduino microcontroller that is connected to a webserver to record and retrieve data, into and from a database that is easy to access from anywhere in the world at any time.