2018; ARSE (TCTD Challenge - 7th InterIIT Tech Meet)

Introduction

We participated in the Tata Center for Technology and Development Challenge in the 7th InterIIT Tech Meet 2018, IIT Bombay. The main theme of the Challenge was to develop “Farm tools that reduce drudgery and provide intelligent automation”. This was my first Inter IIT experience and we won BRONZE in the event. Btw ARSE stands for Autonomous Robot for Soil Estimation.

We developed a robot to help farmers with relatively large fields to analyze soil nutrient content. The analysis system was based on colorimetry and we displayed the results on a local server.

The field is divided into several smaller plots and each plot is analysed separately. An LDR-LED system on Arduino was used to find the NPK content using Beer-Lambert Law and transmitted the data using NodeMCU module. We then perform analyses on the gathered data and provide the farmer with information on the type and amount of nutrients to be used for each plot.

GitHub link for the project :

https://github.com/cybr17crwlr/Soil-Testing-Bot