Monitoring and Controlling Water Pumping System Using IoT for Agriculture Purpose

Abstract

The increasing demand for food, both in terms of quantity and quality, has raised the need for intensification and industrialization of the agricultural sector. The amount of worker may lead to poor productivity and quality of agricultural product. Water pumping systems are mostly used by farmers to channel enough water to the crops to maintain the soil moisture. Conventional water pumping system is controlled by manually by farmers. Farmers are hard or even unable to monitor and provide the required conditions for crops at certain time such as during the night or emergency cases. Based on the limitations that have been highlighted previously, this project aims to monitoring and controlling water pumping system using IoT system. This project used Arduino software to program the NodeMCU board to link the board with the cloud system. Then ThingSpeak Cloud is used for data collection and monitoring. The project is used to monitor the temperature, humidity and soil moisture. The Android application is created based on the developer projects. This project used MIT Apps Inventor to create the Android application. Besides, this system also control ‘ON’ and ‘OFF’ water pumping system via smartphone using android interface at a certain range. The performance of the system is analyzed based on specificity, sensitivity and accuracy. The value for specificity is 95%, value for sensitivity is 100% and value for accuracy is 96.67%.