A Low Cost Irrigation System with Raspberry Pi – Own Design and Statistical Evaluation of Efficiency

• Published in: AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 79 - 90
• Main Authors: Koprda, Š., Magdin, M., Vanek, E., Balogh, Z.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Prague Faculty of Economics and Management CULS Prague 30.06.2017
• Subjects: Agricultural economics; Agricultural production; Agriculture; Automation; Comfort; Control systems; Cooperation; Crops; Data transmission; Design; Design analysis; Design engineering; Efficiency; Embedded systems; Fertilizers; Freshwater resources; Households; Humidity; Illumination; Informatics; Irrigation; Irrigation systems; Lighting; Low cost; Microprocessors; Motherboards; Pesticides; Quality of life; Remote control; Sensors; Smart houses; Smartphones; Stability; Statistics; Studies; Temperature effects; User experience; User interfaces; Water management; Wireless networks
• ISSN: 1804-1930; 1804-1930
• DOI: 10.7160/aol.2017.090207

Nowadays is automation a permanent part of ordinary households and subject to constant evolution. Standard of home automation is a smart (intelligent) home that meets the requirements of the owner and gives him considerable comfort. To the offer of solutions, the intelligent home includes, are control of lighting and temperature, camera system or irrigation system. Technologies of an irrigation system are being developed with an emphasis on smart management of water, advanced features and remote control of the irrigation system. The aim of this paper is to point out the new trends in irrigation systems. In this paper, we describe our own design, implementation and statistical evaluation of low-cost solutions for a smart irrigation system. This is a higher level of automation through intelligent devices with the requirements for user experience and quality of life. This device is according to our design and subsequent testing able to autonomously control three independent irrigation areas and the user experience is ensured by using the web interface (application runs on smartphones with system Android)..