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Contact Information
Name of the College :
Sona College of Technology
Name of the Team Members along with their respective current semester :
Senga Ndimubanzi Boris, 7th Semester
Krishnapillai Gajan, 7th Semester
Yogaratnam Thusyanthan, 7th Semester
Pulendiran Vaasuthas, 7th Semester
Souradeep Mukherjee, 7th Semester
E-Mail Address & Phone Number of the Team Leader :
e-mail ID: nsrnga@yahoo.fr
mobile No: 09787054327
Name of the Faculty Guide :
Prof. B. Gopi
E-Mail Address & Phone Number of the Faculty Guide :
e-mail ID: bgbalasampath@gmail.com
mobile No: 09443828219
Project Information
Project Title:
LabVIEW Based Farm Automation Using Andoid
Hardware & Software Used:
National Instruments LabVIEW
ChipKit U32
Webcam
Sensor Network
Robotic Arm
Solar Panel
Batteries
What challenge/problem are you trying to solve through your application:
Portability and Automation of farm activities.
How does your application solves the above mentioned challenge/problem:
Our Application solves the above problem in the sense that it provides to the user a way of controlling and monitoring the farm activities through the internet from allover the world, and through the Data Dashboard Android application.
Through these tools, the user can control and monitor:
- the power system of the farm;
- He can check the purity of grains, maturity of fruits and detect insects by using image processing.
- He can also enable mature fruits picking, fertilizer spraying, monitor whether the farm is infected by pests or not and take actions about it such as pesticide spaying by using various controls, and actuators.
- He can finally check the quality of soil and its humidity, and many other aspects of farm automation using the Sensor network.
Description of Project:
Our Project proposes a remote controlled robot equipped with a robotic arm and a camera, whose operation will be controlled by an android application (Data Dashboard) or remote Front panel through labVIEW to make easier the task of the farmer by using the various tools of the robot.
This remote controlled robot will include the following modules:
- An on-board camera that acquire the field image, and transmit them to the base station, which is managed by labVIEW; this labVIEW station processes the acquired images, and gives results such as the crop quality, grain purity, insects found, etc.
- An onboard robotic arm used for picking fruits from trees, and some other farm products , and ultimately can be used to pick various plastic and non-alterable dirtiness on the way.
- A mechanism for assuring an accurate spraying of fertilizer and pesticides.
Our project also includes a system to monitor and manage power sources, using labVIEW. It will monitor the solar, battery and grid energy source, and will switch the farm supply to the system having higher power, whenever there is energy drop in one of the sources.
The labVIEW station monitors the internet database for new updates from the android application, based on the updates from the android application; the labVIEW station controls the remote Robot actions. The labVIEW station also analyses the images acquired from the wireless camera on the remote Robot. Apart from these, the LabVIEW station is also equipped with a sensor network that monitors the weather, the temperature and the quality of soil and water;
The labVIEW station transmits the various data that it has acquired from the farm to an internet database, which the farmer can monitor using his android application, and from which he can enable some actions remotely such as the spray of fertilizer, irrigation, fruit picking, etc.
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