Proposal for the development of an intelligent irrigation system, using Pyboard technology

Abstract

All crops, to develop biologically and adapt to their environment, need to absorb water from the soil, acquiring nutrients from the soil itself. In Mexico, water use is distributed as follows: 78% for agriculture, which supplies only 16% of the agricultural area, 84% for seasonal agriculture, 17% for domestic use and 5% for industry. Compared to other figures worldwide, we can see that we are inefficient in the use of water, especially in agriculture and domestic use. In irrigation, we seek to reduce water losses, making efficient use of water. Drip irrigation systems allow to conduct water through a network of pipes to apply water to crops, being the emitters that deliver small volumes of water periodically and drop-shaped, with exit holes called drippers. In addition to implementing a circuit at the hardware level to perform irrigation automatically, using a circuit design that will be responsible for watering the plants, with new technology called Pyboard, being a development board of Python programming language, using the prototype methodology to propose and create the design of the intelligent irrigation system. With the proposed irrigation system, we can have greater control of the water that will be reflected in water savings, which we can later use for the crop. The automated and intelligent irrigation system will be dedicated to optimizing the irrigation water, it will need little human labor to operate.