AUTOMATED IRRIGATION AND WEB-BASED IRRIGATION MONITORING SYSTEM WITH INTERACTIVE DATA LOGGING AS SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR PRECISION AGRICULTURE

The study was conducted to create a cost-effective and high-efficiency irrigation system through automation and a real-time monitoring system. Thus, this study was developed and continuously improved to provide basic technology for precision agriculture. The study aims to develop a cheaper and more reliable monitoring system. The prototype was comprised of hardware and software components. By collaborating with open-source software and automation-friendly hardware. The performance of the system is evaluated and verified using a readily available method of gathering data such as soil moisture. The system is designed to be manually operated, in automatic mode and to monitor the soil moisture in the field using WLAN and Web Based Monitoring. Using a Personal computer, it can be monitored anywhere else in the world. The focus was on the calibration of the sensor rather than the installation of the system. Upon evaluation and interpretation of the two gathered reading, it is determined that the coefficient of determination(R2) is 80.52%. The coefficient of determination is from 0 to 100%. Theoretically, if a model could explain 100% of the variance, the fitted values would always equal the observed values and, therefore, all the data points would fall on the fitted regression line. Considering the economic side, the prototype (not including the irrigation setup) only cost Php 900.00. The study also determines the response time of the sensor from the field to the GUIs which is two seconds delayed and a range of 100 meters for the WLAN mode