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Arduino Irrigation System

In this project we want to make an automatic irrigation system with Arduino.

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Arduino Irrigation System

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO
Arduino UNO
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Breadboard (generic)
Breadboard (generic)
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Adafruit 10K Precision Epoxy Thermistor
×1
Rotary potentiometer (generic)
Rotary potentiometer (generic)
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Adafruit solenoid valve
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Relay (generic)
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Adafruit power supply
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Standard LCD - 16x2 White on Blue
Adafruit Standard LCD - 16x2 White on Blue
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DS3231M - ±5ppm, I2C Real-Time Clock
Maxim Integrated DS3231M - ±5ppm, I2C Real-Time Clock
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Resistor 10k ohm
Resistor 10k ohm
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Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Laser cutter (generic)
Laser cutter (generic)

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Custom parts and enclosures

laser cutter file

laser cutter file

laser cutter file

laser cutter file

Schematics

Elettric

Code

Code

Arduino
#include <Wire.h>  //real time clock sensor library
#include <DS3231.h>
#include <LiquidCrystal.h> //LCD monitor library
#include <Keypad.h>  //keypad library

DS3231 clock;
RTCDateTime dt;
LiquidCrystal lcd(7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12);   // initialize the library with the numbers of the interface pins

const byte ROWS = 4; //four rows
const byte COLS = 1; //one column
//define the cymbols on the buttons of the keypads
char hexaKeys[ROWS][COLS] = {
  {'1'},
  {'2'},
  {'3'},
  {'4'}
};
byte rowPins[ROWS] = {6, 5, 4, 3}; //connect to the row pinouts of the keypad
byte colPins[COLS] = {2}; //connect to the column pinouts of the keypad

//initialize an instance of class NewKeypad
Keypad customKeypad = Keypad( makeKeymap(hexaKeys), rowPins, colPins, ROWS, COLS);

int ThermistorPin = A0; // Temperature sensor
int relaypin = 13; //relay pin

int Vore = 0;   //time, in hours
int Vmin = 0;   //time, in minutes
int Vtemp = 0;  //limit temperature
int VOfin = 0;  //end time, in hour
int VMfin = 0;  //end time, in minutes
int Vo = 0;     //conversion

float R1 = 10000;  //temperature sensor variables
float logR2, R2, T, Tc, Tf;
float c1 = 1.009249522e-03, c2 = 2.378405444e-04, c3 = 2.019202697e-07;

void setup() {
  clock.begin();
  clock.setDateTime(__DATE__, __TIME__);  //set up the real time clock sensor
  pinMode (ThermistorPin, INPUT);
  pinMode (relaypin, OUTPUT);
  lcd.begin(16, 2);   // set up the LCD's number of columns and rows:
  lcd.setCursor(0, 0);     //reset the lcd monitor
  lcd.print ("         ");
  lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
  lcd.print ("         ");
}

void loop() {
  Vo = analogRead(ThermistorPin); // reading the temperature and conversion in celsius
  R2 = R1 * (1023.0 / (float)Vo - 1.0);
  logR2 = log(R2);
  T = (1.0 / (c1 + c2 * logR2 + c3 * logR2 * logR2 * logR2));
  Tc = T - 273.15;
  dt = clock.getDateTime();   //reading the time from the  RTC DS3231
  char customKey1 = customKeypad.getKey();  //reading the keypad key
  if (customKey1 == '1' ) { // change of time 
    Vore = Vore + 1;
    if (Vore > 23) {
      Vore = 0;
    }
  }
  if (customKey1 == '2' ) {
    Vmin  = Vmin + 1;
    if (Vmin > 59) {
      Vmin = 0;
    }
  }
  if (customKey1 == '3' ) { //change of temperature
    Vtemp = Vtemp + 1;
    if (Vtemp > 40) {
      Vtemp = 0;
    }
  }
  lcd.setCursor(0, 0);   // set the cursor to column 0, line 0
  lcd.print ("Sh");      //print the time that it will start (start hour)
  lcd.print (Vore);      
  lcd.print(":");
  lcd.print(Vmin);
  lcd.print("  Ch");   //print the current time (current hour)
  lcd.print (dt.hour);
  lcd.print (":");
  lcd.print(dt.minute);
  lcd.setCursor(0, 1);   // set the cursor to column 0, line 1
  lcd.print ("Tl ");     //print the limit temperature
  lcd.print (Vtemp);
  lcd.print("C");  
  lcd.print(" Tm ");     //print the current temperature
  lcd.print (Tc);
  lcd.print("C");
  if ((dt.hour == Vore) && (dt.minute == Vmin)) {   //condition for irrigation
    if (Tc < Vtemp) {
      digitalWrite (relaypin, HIGH);      //start irrigate
      if (dt.second < 50) {
        VMfin = Vmin + 2;
        VOfin = Vore;        //set the final time of irrigation
        if (VMfin > 60) {
          VMfin = VMfin - 60;
          VOfin = Vore + 1;
          if (VOfin == 24) {
            VOfin = 0;
          }
        }
        delay(50000);      //delay to allow the correct calculation of the final time of irrigation, because we need to calculate it one time and not more//
      }
      delay(1000);       
    }
  }
  else if ((dt.hour == VOfin) && (dt.minute == VMfin)) {
    digitalWrite (relaypin, LOW);   //stop irrigate at final time of irrigation
  }
  else {
    delay(120);   //delay to refresh the LCD monitor
  }
}

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