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@article{189467,
        author = {Priyanshu Singh and Priyanshu Soni and Dr. Manmohan Singh Yadav},
        title = {Moisture Detection in Smart Irrigation System},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {6531-6536},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=189467},
        abstract = {All living beings require water as one of their necessity and yet less than 1 per cent of all the water of the planet is fresh and its consumption is on the rise. Agriculture is by itself a huge consumer of this scanty resource. Water efficiency methods such as drip irrigation have brought about the concept of fertigation which is the combined nature of water and fertilizers. Over the past few decades, studies have been conducted on technologies on how to measure and monitor soil water to be able to deploy smart irrigation technology to farmers. The smart irrigation system discussed in this paper is affordable and would fit middle-class farmers in India. Automation in the 21st century is essential in making human work easier and in this case it applies to agriculture. The main aim is to regulate the supply of water and control its flow automatically with the help of soil moisture sensors. Field updates via mobile messages and Gmail notifications are also communicated in the system; this enables the system to monitor the motor operation and water direction. The model uses soil moisture detector, which is a sensor installed in the crop field and an ultrasonic sensor to measure the water level. A sensor signal is being processed by an Arduino UNO
microcontroller (ATMega328), perception of water content in soil, and drives the system. Depending on the threshold values programmed into C++, the microcontroller opens a relay whereby the groundwater pump can either be off (or on). To display the percent moisture in soil, water level as well as status of the pump, an LCD display is depending. When soils are 99 percent moist and water level is 6 cm the pump is switched off which is met in about 2.5 and 4 minutes respectively. This system is efficient in saving water, time and also human effort.},
        keywords = {},
        month = {December},
        }