Solar Based Plant Irrigation System

Solar energy has emerged as viable source of renewable energy over the past few decades and is now used for various applications such as emergency lighting, water heaters, and industrial application. It is a cheap source of energy. Unlike hydroelectricity it does not cause national or any conflicts because sun is the only renewable source which is available to everyone. This paper proposes a solar based automatic irrigation system. The main objective is to design an low cost and time based irrigation system with the help of microcontroller. Irrigation Scheduler measures various parameters such as humidity, temperature and soil moisture. In this paper the new type of solar panel is used i.e.. Spin Cell, which produces 20 times more current than the traditional flat panels and also in the irrigation system the irrigation pump controlled in two modes :- Automatic mode and GSM mode.