SISTEMA AUTOMATICO DI IRRIGAZIONE CON SENSING DISTRIBUITO PER AGRICOLTURA DI PRECISIONE

Worldwide, the application of water and its managed use has been an essential factor in raising productivity of agriculture and ensuring predictability in outputs. In southern European countries such as Greece, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, Spain, and southern France, the arid or semi-arid conditions necessitate the use of irrigation. In these areas, nearly 80% of water used in agriculture currently goes to irrigation (source: European Environment Agency). Improved agricultural water use in irrigated agriculture will play a key-role in coping with the expected water scarcity stress. Objective of this work is developing a system to automatically control the irrigation (actuating some electrical valves via a relay) according to soil moisture data acquired by a capacitive sensor. The control loop will be implemented as distributed, ensuring system flexibility. Embedded systems and IoT technologies will be used to achieve the aim.