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IV. BALKAN AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS, Edirne, Turkey, 1 - 03 September 2022, pp.373
Globally emerging concerns such as climate change, carbon footprint, drought, energy crisis,
pandemics and finally food supply chain problems have forced mankind to find new
solutions. Since agricultural production is vital and the only way to obtain food, it must be
carried out efficiently. In order to protect the health of ecology, sustainability has become the
main goal in agriculture as well as everywhere else. Saving the environment and helping it
maintain health, preventing pollution, poverty and malnutrition, and increasing agricultural
productivity is what the world seeks to achieve today through the Sustainable Development
Goals. In order to increase the crop yield and reduce the total energy, water and fertilizer
used, the farmers started to apply state-of-the-art technologies in their farmlands.
Consequently, the latest developments in digital technologies such as computing,
communication and artificial intelligence have been applied to agriculture with great success
and finally digital agriculture (or smart agriculture) has become a trending research and
application topic. In this paper, we propose a system consisting of fundamental sensors and
actuators such as solenoid valve, water pump, UV meter, temperature and humidity sensors,
barometric pressure sensor, soil moisture sensor, rain sensor and real-time clock module; to
provide a quick start to digital agriculture by developing internet of things enabled irrigation
control algorithms and weather monitoring tool. We designed the system by choosing
commonly used parts that are suitable for do-it-yourself practice. We used an Arduino
supported IoT enabled ESP32 microcontroller, which can also perform some machine
learning applications over TinyML. We demonstrated an automated water-saving sprinkler
prototype where data from meteorological events and soil sensors is successfully recorded and
archived in the cloud storage. We used 10 watt photovoltaic solar panels as power source. We
designed the body parts of the system with Autodesk Fusion 360 and 3D printed it with ecofriendly PLA material.