Soil Moisture Monitoring System using Wireless Sensor Network

Monitoring the soil moisture generally done by manual observation of researchers in agriculture area. It is obviously take a long time, especially when monitoring the declining level of soil moistur. This practice is less efficient especially when examining the level of soil moisture contained plants in it. For that we need a solution to improve efficiency in terms of use of time and in terms of facilitating the monitoring of soil moisture conditions. Our proposed system to monitor soil moisture uses Libmium Waspmote as a microcontroller. The process of sending data from the sensor to the Internet network and then to the database server took about 10-15 seconds. This was influenced by the process of taking data from the board and also the delay when the sensor connected to the available network. The results of system testing showed that the system can work in a way if researchers leave the soil with high humidity then researchers want to monitor soil moisture at a certain moisture level, then the researchers simply set the level of humidity that wants to be maintained by the application system. If the soil moisture content is equal or less than the point set on the system, the system provided notification immediately.