Application of advanced microprocessor in modern agriculture

Appropriate environmental conditions are necessary for optimum plant growth inside the greenhouse. Improved crop yields are related to controllable environments, including efficient use of water and other resources. Hence there is a need for automating the data acquisition process of the soil moistu...

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Main Author: Sahib, Thaeer Mueen
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Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling my-utm-ep.538642020-09-13T09:12:05Z Application of advanced microprocessor in modern agriculture 2015-06 Sahib, Thaeer Mueen TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Appropriate environmental conditions are necessary for optimum plant growth inside the greenhouse. Improved crop yields are related to controllable environments, including efficient use of water and other resources. Hence there is a need for automating the data acquisition process of the soil moisture, temperature conditions and various climatic parameters that govern plant growth. A new environmental monitoring and control system is developed which employs Microcontroller Arduino ATmega2560. The system uses a PID controller with Pulse width modulation (PWM) used together with LM35 temperature sensor and an LM393 comparator chip of the soil moisture module. An LCD unit is used to display the various soil moisture levels for the monitoring operation. The outcome is a stabilized system with minimum error in both temperature and soil moisture modules and has been proven all curves in one chart that‘s displaying the rate of variation between soil moisture contents level and temperature degree against the time in real time data. According to this results, the system is done correctly. 2015-06 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53864/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53864/1/ThaeerMueenSahibMFKE2015.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:86653 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Sahib, Thaeer Mueen
Application of advanced microprocessor in modern agriculture
description Appropriate environmental conditions are necessary for optimum plant growth inside the greenhouse. Improved crop yields are related to controllable environments, including efficient use of water and other resources. Hence there is a need for automating the data acquisition process of the soil moisture, temperature conditions and various climatic parameters that govern plant growth. A new environmental monitoring and control system is developed which employs Microcontroller Arduino ATmega2560. The system uses a PID controller with Pulse width modulation (PWM) used together with LM35 temperature sensor and an LM393 comparator chip of the soil moisture module. An LCD unit is used to display the various soil moisture levels for the monitoring operation. The outcome is a stabilized system with minimum error in both temperature and soil moisture modules and has been proven all curves in one chart that‘s displaying the rate of variation between soil moisture contents level and temperature degree against the time in real time data. According to this results, the system is done correctly.
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author Sahib, Thaeer Mueen
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title Application of advanced microprocessor in modern agriculture
title_short Application of advanced microprocessor in modern agriculture
title_full Application of advanced microprocessor in modern agriculture
title_fullStr Application of advanced microprocessor in modern agriculture
title_full_unstemmed Application of advanced microprocessor in modern agriculture
title_sort application of advanced microprocessor in modern agriculture
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53864/1/ThaeerMueenSahibMFKE2015.pdf
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