ELECTRICA

Design and Implementation of a Smart Controller in Agriculture for Improved Productivity

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Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

ELECTRICA 2018; 18: 45-51
DOI: 10.5152/iujeee.2018.1808
Read: 1063 Downloads: 520 Published: 23 February 2018

Agricultural producesignificantly depends on many crop parameters such as humidity, pH,temperature, sunlight, microbial activity, soil ions, air quality, and waterquality. A higher production of crop can be achieved via maintaining all theseparameters in the desired range. A smart system was developed to control theenvironmental parameters in the desired range via incorporating a multisensorto measure the parameters such as humidity, temperature, and sunlight; inaddition, also a suitable controller was designed to control these parametersin the desired range. Sensors were placed to continuously monitor the fieldparameters such as temperature, humidity, sunlight, and soil moisture. Allthese parameters were remotely acquired using ZigBee to PC through myRIO boards.Fuzzy-based controllers were designed to operate the actuators to maintain theset point. The designed system on implementation was tested on a real-lifemodel. The results show that the proposed technique maintained the parametersat the desired state and reduced human intervention and labor.

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