Open AccessWeb-Based Irrigation Monitoring and Control System
Author(s) -
Wodadaya Nafutali,
Twaibu Semwogerere,
Matovu Davis,
Lusiba Badru,
Gilbert Gilibrays Ocen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of computer science, engineering and information technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2231-3605
pISSN - 2231-3117
DOI - 10.5121/ijcseit.2021.11601
Subject(s) - irrigation , computer science , process (computing) , agricultural engineering , web application , implementation , population , water resource management , environmental science , world wide web , engineering , software engineering , operating system , ecology , demography , sociology , biology
In Uganda, as well as other developing countries, the increasing population stimulates the agricultural-related activities such as irrigation. Irrigation is basically done by humans and generally requires exhaustive physical efforts and involves exposure to errors during irrigation. Despite the advances in the irrigation and its wide spreading applications, irrigation remains majorly manual. Since irrigating is a difficult process especially when irrigating a big piece of land, it is necessary to simplify the process, thus web based system in irrigating was introduced and existing implementations have limitations such as irrigating at wrong hours, continued wastage of water, so prevent all this, a new system that uses a web control to remotely irrigate from a distance has been developed ,therefore main objective of this project is to design and develop a web based irrigation monitoring and control system since it is observed that this method is more reliable and efficient compared to the existing methods. The developed system is able to automatically receive the moisture levels from the field, responds to the different commands sent by the user to do the irrigation and the user is also able to switch on and off the pump.