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Plant Watering Alarm System With Arduino

Made by ioarvanit / Environmental Sensing / Garden / Plants / Robotics / Sensors

About the project

A device that warns us with light sound and a sign when our plant needs water.

Project info

Difficulty: Easy

Platforms: Arduino

Estimated time: 2 hours

License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY version 4.0 or later (CC BY 4+)

Items used in this project

Hardware components

	Alkaline AA battery 4 pack	x 1
	Jumper Wire Kit - 140pcs	x 1
	Resistor Network - 10K Ohm (6-pin bussed)	x 2
	Tiny Breadboard	x 1
	RedBot Buzzer Buzzer	x 1
	Tiny Breadboard	x 1
	SparkFun Soil Moisture Sensor	x 1
	Arduino Uno - R3	x 1

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Software apps and online services

	Ardublockly
	Arduino IDE

Hand tools and fabrication machines

	Soldering iron (generic)	x 1
	Hot glue gun (generic)	x 1

Story

A device that warns us with light sound and a sign when our plan needs water. The project was made by the students of the “Little Hackers” evening club of the Experimental Elementary School of Florina. The device contains a moisture sensor, a servo motor a led light and a buzzer.

The moisture sensor is placed the plant pot and continuesly reads the moisture values. When that values fall under a certain limit the device warns us by:

Blinking the led light

Sending a beeping sound from the buzzer

Turning the small sign so that the “No water” sketch is shown

The final project was presented along with other projects from students of all schools of Florina at the 7th Students Festival for Digital Creations

Schematics, diagrams and documents

Schematic

Code

Plant water alarm code - arduino

#include <Servo.h>  

Servo myServo;      //The sign servo
int buzzerPin = 8;  //The Buzzer pin
int redLed = 9;     //The led pin
int moisture;       //The moisture value
 
void setup() {
  pinMode(buzzerPin,OUTPUT);   
  pinMode(redLed,OUTPUT);      
  myServo.attach(11;          
}
 
void loop() {
  moisture = analogRead(A0);             //Read the moisture from sensor
  moisture = map(moisture,0,1023,100,1); //Map the moisture values to 1-100. 
  if (moisture < 50) {                   //If moisture is low
    myServo.write(165);                  //Turn motor to "No water" sign
    digitalWrite(redLed,HIGH);           //Turn on the led light
    tone(buzzerPin, 2000, 500);          //Play a buzzer tone for halph a second
    delay(1000);                         //delay for a second
    digitalWrite(redLed,LOW);            //Turn off the led light  
    delay(1000);                         //Delay another second
  } else {                               //If moisture is OK
    digitalWrite(redLed,HIGH);           //Just turn on the led light 
    myServo.write(20);                   //and turn motor to "plant ok" sign
  }
}

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