Home-Based Irrigation System

Home gardening has been a livelihood, supplementary activity, and a recreation in both rural and urban areas. It has been an apparent solution to some economic and social triggers such as food security, health, starvation and rate of malnutrition. The height of the pandemic turned the interests of the public in home gardening, especially during the COVID-19 lockdown. This has opened the potential of home-based irrigation system. Home-based irrigation system uses sensor technology along with microcontroller and other electronics in order to behave like smart switching system which senses soil moisture level and irrigates the plant if necessary. Different electronic components were used to build the irrigation system. The automatic plant irrigation system used a relay module in order to give a power supply into water pump, and to control the voltage of the battery, soil moisture sensor designed based on the specially programmed Arduino board technology. Significant results in terms of avoiding dehydration and other growth deficiencies can be concluded. The system shows vast potential in measuring the level of soil moisture using the sensor technology