Name: Juwin Thomas

Guide: Prof. B.K Chakravarthy

Co Guide: Prof. Sadhu

Course: Industrial design

Soil moisture sensor

Drought and scarcity of water have increasingly impacted agriculture industry of India in the recent years. It is hence substantial to practice optimum water usage in fields under these circumstances. By knowing the moisture value of soil, we can estimate when to water and how much to water so that there is no over- watering or wilting of crops.

 

Mrs.Rajul S Patkar has developed low cost piezoresistive cantilever platforms for agricultural applications as a part of her Ph.D.Thesis. Through this project I aim to design a low cost soil moisture sensor by utilizing proposed sensor based technology for small and medium scale farmers that helps them in providing optimum irrigation for crops and thereby increasing productivity.

54 percentage of India’s ground water wells have dropped over past 7 years ,with 16 percent decreasing at the rate of 1 meter per year.

Soil moisture sensor device can determine optimum amount of water required for a specific crop which helps farmers to irrigate accordingly and thereby reducing water wastage