TITLE:
Design and Development of Mechatronic Application in Agricultural Irrigation Device
AUTHORS:
Mohd Hudzari Razali, Syazili Roslan, Abdul Ssomad Mohd Abd Halim, Hayan Basit
KEYWORDS:
Irrigation System, Water Control System, PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Engineering and Technology,
Vol.4 No.3,
August
15,
2016
ABSTRACT: In order to help the small-scale farmer, an automatic irrigation control system was proposed. This system will provide an irrigation system that will ease the burden of the citizen to take care of the plant. This system will run automatically by referring to the time set by the user. As the name itself is a water control system, this system will only start irrigating when the time set triggered the water control level for the plant to grow healthily. It will automatically stop when the timer is off (1 hour). The brain of the system is the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller). This is the place where all the activities are done. The irrigation will be provided by a pump that is also connected to the microcontroller. The pump will be activated until the timer has reached its time set. This system will continue running until the user presses the OFF button.