Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering and Applied Sciences: Research Areas

Abstract:
The food security problem of Nigeria keeps increasing. Recently Nigerians are going back into Agriculture not only as ameans of livelihood but as income generating venture. Farming is a seasonal venture in which during dry season, planting is not possible. To solve this problem, many farmers have started irrigation farming. Also especially in the northern part of the country, the amount of rainfall experienced per annum is so minute. The objective of this work is to increase high crop productivity by devising proper automated irrigation system that can be used for proper crop irrigation in the aforementioned areas. This is to ultimately meet up with the food demand of the increasing population of Nigeria. In this work, the design and simulation of a farm irrigation system being controlled by a Fuzzy Control system is carried out using MATLAB (Matrix Laboratory), Seeeduino microcontroller board and Arduino components. A prototype of the system was developed in Computer laboratory FUTA and a case study of the project was carried out. The observed result showed that the Irrigation system can be adequately controlled by the Fuzzy system. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Keywords:

Keywords: Fuzzy Logic Mamdani Control System, FIS, Farm Irrigation System, MATLAB, Agriculture

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