Smart garden automated and real time plant watering and lighting system with security features

Abstract

In the modern mechanized era, we can hardly think of any activity that doesn't require technology. Although long gone are the days that require manual manipulation, there are still some activities that require it largely, one of them being "gardening", which is one of the most preferable hobbies for most of us. In our project, we endeavored to demonstrate an effective way of introducing a "Smart Garden", which barely demands any manual labor, thereby sparing users from the hassles and predicaments of handling tasks related to gardening. The garden has a number of functionalities, all of which can be operated at a pre-set time without human intervention or via a remote. The both-way nature of the implementation is to make sure that the user receives the ease of taking care of his or her garden even when he or she is not around. Arduino uno R3 is the primary tool used in this project, although, apart from that, a couple of other indispensable equipments, such as, a soil moisture sensor to read the humidity level of the soil, a dc water pump to pump water onto the plants from a reservoir, an IR sensor is operated via a remote to perform specific functions, light bulbs for lighting the garden, sonar sensors with a buzzer for intruder detection and a webcam attached to a servo motor to capture the intruder's movement, an RTC module to water plants for a user defined time duration or turn on/off garden lights at any preferable time set beforehand by the user, were used. Our only aspiration from this project is to build a user friendly garden utilizing an automated approach.