TABLE OF CONTENTS
Topic Page
Project Title i
Acknowledgement v
Abstrak vi
Abstract vii
Dedication viii
Table of content ix
List of Tables xiii
List of Figures xiv
List of abbreviations, Symbols, and Nomenclatures xvi
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Project Introduction
1 1.2
Problem Statement 2
1.3 Objectives
3 1.4
Scope of Project 3
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 4
2.1 Introduction
4 2.2
Related Projects 4
2.2.1 Automated Solar Based Agriculture Pumping 5 2.2.2 Development of Solar Powered Irrigation System 6
2.2.3 Solar-Powered Automated PlantCrop Watering System 7
2.2.4 Application of Solar Powered Automatic Water Pumping in Turkey 8 2.2.5 Solar Powered Smart Irrigation System
9 2.2.6 Automatic Irrigation System through a Solar Power
11 2.2.7 The Irrigation System Fed from Biaxial PV panels
12 2.2.8 Automated Irrigation System Using Solar Power
14 2.2.9 The Soc Design and Realization of Small Scale Solar Irrigation
Control System Based on FPGA 15
2.2.10 Intelligence Irrigation System Employing the Use of Solar PV 16
2.2.11 Comparison between reviewed journals 17
2.3 Photovoltaic Panels
19 2.3.1 Monocrystalline Silicon mono-Si PV panel
19 2.3.2 Polycrystalline Silicon PV panel
20 2.3.3 Amorphous Silicon PV panel
20 2.4
Microcontroller and Microprocessor 21
2.5 Soil Moisture Sensor
22 2.5.1 So Basic Self Made Soil Moisture Sensor
22 2.5.2 Soil Conditions
23 2.6
Soil Moisture Sensor Module 24
2.7 Horizontal Single Axis Tracker HSAT
25
CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 27
3.1 Introduction
27 3.2
Overall Flowchart of project 27
3.2.1 Literature Review and Planning 27
3.2.2 Software Circuit Design 28
3.2.3 Hardware Implementation 28
3.2.4 Programming of PIC 28
3.3 Operation of system
30 3.4
Gantt chart 31
3.5 Designing and Simulation
32 3.6
Fabrication 33
3.7 Programming
35 3.8
Testing and Troubleshooting 36
CHAPTER 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 37
4.1 Introduction
37 4.2
Proteus Software Simulation ISIS 37
4.2.1 Solar Charge Controller 37
4.2.2 PIC Bootloader Circuit 38
4.3 Proteus Software Simulation ARES
39 4.4
Circuit Prototype of Project 40
4.4.1 Charge Controller 40
4.4.2 PIC Bootloader 41
4.4.3 Relay and LDR circuit 42
4.5 System Operation
43 4.6
Full system Prototype 45 4.7
Discussion 46
4.8 Sustainability
48 4.9
Commercialization 49
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK 50
