TY - GEN
T1 - Design and implementation of smart irrigation system for groundwater use at farm scale
AU - Zaier, Riadh
AU - Zekri, Slim
AU - Jayasuriya, Hemanatha
AU - Teirab, Abbas
AU - Hamza, Nabil
AU - Al-Busaidi, Hamed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 University of Al Qayrawan, Tunisia.
PY - 2016/2/16
Y1 - 2016/2/16
N2 - Recently there has been an excessive groundwater pumping and seawater intrusion in the costal aquifers of Oman. To deal with this problem, a fully automated and wireless irrigation control system that avoids subjective decisions about irrigation volumes and timing was developed. All fields in the farm are accessible via TCP/IP protocol. Each farm has a Single Collecting Node for data collection connected to a host computer. All nodes in a crop are connected to Xbee network and considered as Slave Nodes except one termed Master Node. The Master Node includes two sensors and a solenoid valve. The Master Node controls the irrigation of the field with a same crop sequentially using slave nodes. Both the Xbee network and the solenoid valves are powered by a lithium battery with photovoltaic charging panels. The irrigation control and monitoring program is implemented in the host computer in the farm, which monitors the states of all crops and controls the valves using a threshold and timers. The smart irrigation system has been installed in 14 farms.
AB - Recently there has been an excessive groundwater pumping and seawater intrusion in the costal aquifers of Oman. To deal with this problem, a fully automated and wireless irrigation control system that avoids subjective decisions about irrigation volumes and timing was developed. All fields in the farm are accessible via TCP/IP protocol. Each farm has a Single Collecting Node for data collection connected to a host computer. All nodes in a crop are connected to Xbee network and considered as Slave Nodes except one termed Master Node. The Master Node includes two sensors and a solenoid valve. The Master Node controls the irrigation of the field with a same crop sequentially using slave nodes. Both the Xbee network and the solenoid valves are powered by a lithium battery with photovoltaic charging panels. The irrigation control and monitoring program is implemented in the host computer in the farm, which monitors the states of all crops and controls the valves using a threshold and timers. The smart irrigation system has been installed in 14 farms.
KW - Water resources
KW - Xbee network
KW - measurement
KW - standalone control system
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U2 - 10.1109/ICMIC.2015.7409402
DO - 10.1109/ICMIC.2015.7409402
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84965077450
T3 - Proceedings of 2015 7th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, ICMIC 2015
BT - Proceedings of 2015 7th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, ICMIC 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 7th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, ICMIC 2015
Y2 - 18 December 2015 through 20 December 2015
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