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PARTICIPANT 1 NAME: Manav J. Shah Gender: Male

FATHER’S NAME: Jayesh Shah

PARTICIPANT 2 NAME(IF TEAM): Sachit Goyal Gender: Male

FATHER’S NAME: Manish Goyal

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Computer Science, Engineering: Materials and

Bioengineering
SCHOOL NAME: Dhirubhai Ambani International School

CITY: Mumbai STATE:

Maharashtra
Class: 9 AGE: 15

GUIDE NAME: Manish Goyal

ACCOMPANYING ADULT NAME: Manish Goyal Gender: Male

A low cost prototype device for efficient irrigation,

weather prediction and water management.
Manav Shah
Sachit Goyal
The ultimate farmer’s tool
11 August 2015
The Ultimate Farmers’ Tool
The ultimate farmers’ tool is a low cost device which monitors the moisture and health
of the soil, irrigates a farm accordingly and also predicts and checks for approaching
storm, heavy rain and dry weather. Sometimes farmers in India due to lack of awareness
and harsh weather conditions lose the quality of the soil. We look forward to tackle this
problem in our project.
Plants need just the right amount of water to grow. Too less, might decrease the quality
of the produce and too much might lead too runoff. This device regulates irrigation to
just the right amount. This is achieved through soil moisture sensors readings which
dictate the device, the moisture content of the soil through the amount electrical
resistance offered by dry soil(23.46% returning voltage). Heavy rains and storms might
over water the soil leading to run-off and degradation and droughts or dry weather may
render the soil dry. To compensate for the water collected due to precipitation, the
device predicts approaching rains with the help of an electronic barometer. The rate of
change of pressure determines the climatic conditions. This device is programmed to
analyse different patterns of pressure changes that lead to different weather
phenomena. Inbuilt algorithms analyse the weather and find the best, most accurate
prediction from previous data (This gives the best weather prediction for that region and
altitude). It also manages drawing of water from different water sources of the village
so as to maintain adequate levels of water in those sources and warns the user of
depleting levels of water (using a water level sensor). Another feature of our device is
that it warns the user against severe storms, which may help save the lives of people
living in the remotest of places as it works completely independently without internet
connection and runs on a 9 volt battery. This device is based on an Arduino UNO micro-
controller and is programmed through an Arduino C compiler.