Automated irrigation project 🌿

In this project I will guide you through building an automated home irrigation system. For successful completion of the project on your own, you would need the following components and tools:

• MCU - I reccomend an ESP8266 microcontroller as it is needed to communicate over wifi, but you can use an Arduino Uno for basic prototyping
• Soil Moisture sensor - a capacitive soil moisture sensor is advisable as its probes do not corrode overtime. However, I used a resisitive soil moisture sensor as it was readily available.
• Temperature sensor - I used a DHT11 temperature sensor, that is also able to measure humidity. In this case however, I used it only for the former function.
• 12V submersible Pump - A 9V/5V pump would still do the same fnction effectively
• Relay - to be able to controll the submersible pump using my MCU and avoid burning it out, i needed a relay that would act as the switch.
• Basic programming skills - allow you to program the MCU in simplified C++ and also build the interface using flask, a python framework.

Here i list down all the code that I employ to run my system. it has been categorised into the following sections:

1. Code to read temperature on DHT11 here
2. Code to read soil moisture sensor readings here
3. Code for the relay module here
4. Finalized Arduino Code, with the Firebase database logic include here
5. Understanding how to use the webapp here

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