Published May 6, 2018

Knowing Earth Beneath

Knowing the location of planted seed/ sapling and viewing their stages of growth.

IntermediateWork in progress2,523

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Walabot Developer Pack

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

Seeed Studio Grove - Temperature Sensor

Story

How will one feel to know the current seed growth stage?

For better development of seed growth in one's garden. it will be great to have a feed. And along with the feed one if gets instruction to what should be done for more healthy growth would be a cheery on cake.

SYNOPSIS:

By walabot this is possible. Our device will be programmed in such a manner that at different stages of growth, which actions can be taken. This could be done by Machine Learning. By training it, it can be done. Thus from the scanned image it will give the user information about the current status and steps which can be taken for its better growth. It will also send emergency signal on seeing a larger image than a certain size, showcasing presence of rodents. Thus garden can be secured by taking necessary actions.

Thus from "raspberry pi", will be used for sending the data to user on his mobile or connected device. Seed Grove TEmperature seeds will be used for measuring soil temperature. From temperature sensor our MCU will get temperature. And it will be programmed in such a way that if temperature if above certain temperature sprinkler system will be started.

WORKING:

Our Walabot will be placed above the soil, and it will have vigilance on seeds. It will scan the surface and from the image it will compare it with the data available. Using machine learning it will learn the image and send the necessary instructions to user on the app.

User will get the data on his mobile. while scanning if at any moment if image will contain a structure bigger than certain size it will send alert message to user showing presence of rodents via sms.

On app their will be an option for checking water/ soil temperature. If it is above a criteria we will be, receiving an alert message and we will be having an option for starting water sprinkler system in our ap." Board" is connected with sprinkler, so whenever the message will be sent by user the system will be activated and sprinkler will start.

The image that will be seen on mobile, data feed

We can have vigilance on seeds and also take necessary steps at required time by using walabot..

we can have vigilance on seeds and also take necessary steps at required time by using walabot.

WORKING:

User will get the data on his mobile. while scanning if at any moment if image will contain a structure bigger than certain size it will send alert message to user showing presence of rodents.

On app their will be an option for checking water/ soil temperature. If it is above a criteria we will be having an option for starting water sprinkler system."Raspberry Pi" is connected with sprinkler, so whenever the message will be sent by user the system will be activated and sprinkler will start.

the image that will be seen on mobile, data feed

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Code

#!/usr/bin/python

# Import required libraries
import sys
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO # GPIO library we need to use the GPIO pins
import time # time library for sleep function

# GPIO pins for pump
StepPinForward=32
StepPinBackward=36
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
GPIO.setup(StepPinForward, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(StepPinBackward, GPIO.OUT)

# GPIO pins for water sensor
channel = 29
# Set the GPIO pin to an input
GPIO.setup(channel, GPIO.IN)

def soilsensor(channel):  
    if GPIO.input(channel):
        print "Turning Water Pump On!"
        pumpforward(5)
    else:       
        print "Enough Water. Now Stopping Water Pump"
        GPIO.output(StepPinForward, GPIO.LOW)

# Function for turning water pump on to suck from tub & push to plants
def pumpforward(x):
    GPIO.output(StepPinForward, GPIO.HIGH)
    print "forwarding running pump"
    time.sleep(10)
    GPIO.output(StepPinForward, GPIO.LOW)

# Function for reversing pump in order to put excess water in tubes back into tub
def pumpbackward(x):
    GPIO.output(StepPinBackward, GPIO.HIGH)
    print "backward running pump"
    time.sleep(10)
    GPIO.output(StepPinBackward, GPIO.LOW)    
    
# Tells script to watch gpio pin and let us know when the pin goes HIGH or LOW
GPIO.add_event_detect(channel, GPIO.BOTH, bouncetime=300)

# Assigns a function to the GPIO pin so when a change on the pin from above add_event_detect, run this function
GPIO.add_event_callback(channel, soilsensor)

# Infinte loop to keep our script running
while True:
	# Tells our script to wait 0.1 of a second so the script doesnt hog all of the CPU
	time.sleep(0.1)

Credits

AARYA BRAHMANE

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Knowing Earth Beneath

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Story

Schematics

Working

thermal image of healthy seed

thermal image for pest

Code

Soil sensor

starting irrigation system.

temperature alert

Credits

AARYA BRAHMANE

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Knowing Earth Beneath

Knowing Earth Beneath

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Story

Schematics

Working

thermal image of healthy seed

thermal image for pest

Code

Soil sensor

starting irrigation system.

temperature alert

Credits

AARYA BRAHMANE

Comments

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