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    Smart Irrigation System Using Arduino and LabVIEW for Real-Time Monitoring and Efficient Water Management
    (Faculty of Engineering, 2025-09-09) Vinayagamoorthy, S
    Efficient water management is a critical challenge in agriculture, particularly in regions experiencing water scarcity and climate variability. Conventional irrigation systems, typically based on fixed schedules or manual practices, often result in over- irrigation or under-irrigation, leading to resource wastage and reduced crop performance. This paper presents the design and implementation of a Smart Irrigation System that integrates Arduino-based embedded hardware with a LabVIEW graphical interface to achieve real-time monitoring, automation, and user-driven control of irrigation. The system continuously measures soil moisture, temperature, and humidity, enabling dynamic threshold-based irrigation supported by a manual override option. Experimental validation confirmed that the system operates reliably, responds accurately to changing soil conditions, and prevents unnecessary irrigation by activating the water pump only when required. Unlike existing solutions, the proposed system provides dual operating modes, interactive threshold adjustment, and intuitive real-time visualization through LabVIEW, making it both scalable and cost-effective for small- to medium-scale farming applications. This work contributes to sustainable agricultural practices by combining affordability, adaptability, and improved water-use efficiency.
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    Automated Water-Gate Controlling System for Paddy Fields
    (2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Sanjula, W.A.K.L.; Kavinda, K.T.W.; Malintha, M.A.K.; Wijesuriya, W.M.D.L.; Lokuliyana, S.; de Silva, R.
    The Internet of things (IoT) is an attractive technology being used in almost every aspect of the world today. It allows connecting any of the objects that want to communicate with each other and to transfer data without human interaction. In this paper proposed system is discussed on canal automation for a smart irrigation system using IoT concepts. Automated Water Gate Controlling System collects few environmental factors through a smart module embedded with sensors to communicate with the water gate of the paddy field. Cloud computing is used to store a large amount of data gathered by the sensor module. All real-time sensed data are processed and demonstrated on a web dashboard with a convenient graphical user interface along with a rain and reservoir water level prediction analysis to the users. Automation supports distance monitoring and controlling by allowing minimum human intervention. This paper provides a solution for traditional irrigation systems to confront rural farming interferences and global climatic changes via a cloudbased automated wireless communication system to water their paddy fields, monitor them and smartly control them.
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    Automated Crop Harvesting, Growth Monitoring and Disease Detection System for Vertical Farming Greenhouse
    (2021 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2021-12-09) Jayasekara, C.; Banneka, S.; Pasindu, G.; Udawaththa, Y.; Wellalage, S.; Abeygunawardhane, P.K.W.
    - Greenhouses are a type of cultivation method used to optimize the production of crops by using controlled climatic conditions and other external factors. They are widely used in agriculture both globally and locally. Vertical farming is the modern practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers in warehouses that aims to optimize and develop plant growth by using controlled environment agriculture. This type of agriculture concept is practiced in Sri Lanka at present. This research paper proposes a robot which consists of a specific navigation system and harvesting mechanism that can be used inside greenhouses. The proposed system can be implemented to harvest lettuce in the vertical farming greenhouses where lettuce needs to be harvested with care to ensure the supermarket quality. The above-mentioned system helps to detect the diseases of plants also where a lot of time can be saved, and less effort is made with the use of this type of implementation.