2. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION
The project is designed with
- Microcontroller
- Solar Panel
- Moisture sensor
- pH Sensor
- Ultrasonic Sensor
- Optical Sensor
- GSM module
The GSM-based Agrobot with Automatic Sun Tracking Solar Panel performs a
number of simultaneous operations.As day by day, the labor availability
becomes the great concern for the farmers and labor cost is more, this
machine reduces the efforts as well as increasing the easy way of sowing
the seeds and soil testing process.The seed sowing process is carried
out with the help of agrobot using PIC16F877 microcontroller and is
programmed to sow the seed by maintaining the distance.The agrobot is
powered with the help of solar energy using solar activation system.In
order to increase productivity, an agrobot has been designed for seed
sowing, obstacle detection and irrigation process in an automatic
manner.The obstacles are detected with the help of ultrasonic sensor and
digged out using digging process.The soil conditions also checked with
the help of moisture sensor and pH sensor.The movement of the agrobot is
monitores with the help of the optical.The.methodology.includes the soil
monitorization using LabVIEW.GSM technology is used to communicate with
the farmers for passing the information through SMS.