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GARDENING BOT
NEED STATEMENT:
Design and develop a gardening bot such that it can automatically sense the moisture content in the soil, and water the plants.
INTRODUCTION:
An automated gardening system is used to develop and to optimize the use of water for plants and verify water scarcity problem. It is difficult to manually assess the amount of moisture required in the soil for the healthy growth of plants therefore the soil is either left dry for a long period of time, or flooded unnecessarily hence both destroy the nutrients and minerals from the soil that are vital for the plants.
The optimal quantity of water is vital to the growth of plants where the level of moisture in the soil is one of the factors responsible for the healthy growth of plants. Due to limited water resources and water scarcity it is important to make efficient use of water resources for the quality growth of plants.
Our aim is to build a automatic gardening bot which can reduce human effort.
IMPORTANCE OF GARDENING BOT:
Gardening bot helps to control the growth of plants automatically.
An automatic Gardening helps to reduce manual effort.
Source of information:
The information regarding gardening bot is taken from the following source:
1} Internet
2} Youtube
Types of Gardening bot:
1}Automatic plant pot prototype
Design and Development: An automatic plant pot prototype. It has automatic watering, moisture control and automatic fertilization which helps a plant to grow normally and healthy.
2}Plant watering autonomous robot
During summers, most people are too lazy to water the potted plants on their rooftop gardens every day. Explained in this section is a simple and exciting automatic plant watering system that you can build yourself in just a few hours. It is an Arduino based automatic plant watering system that uses a soil moisture sensor.
3}Farm bot
Agriculture is the backbone of rural India. Farmers face problems such as lack of timely availability of efficient workforce, as many have migrated from country side. Hence, to reduce the burden of farmers, automation in the field of farming is necessary. Automated robots are being developed to assist the agriculture activities like ploughing, sowing, weeding, pesticide spraying and fruit picking all over the world. The amount of watering is based on the soil moisture sensor reading that is taken.
4}Plant Irrigation Water Sprinkler Agriculture Robot
Reference:
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/farmbot-intends-to-revolutionize-home-gardening/
https://nevonprojects.com/plant-irrigation-water-sprinkler-robot/