Title :
Automation of PV farmers pump
Author :
Pradeep, E. ; Ganeshmurthy, R. ; Sekar, K. ; Arun, E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Kathir Coll. of Eng., Kathir, India
Abstract :
The primary aim of this project is to develop and atomize the PV farmers pump considering the power supply, direct current (DC), Alternating current (AC), inverter frequency, GSM technology, a well, water level in the well, submersible monoblock pump. Here we introduce an advanced technique with GSM (Global Service for Mobile communication) module. The PV farmers pump which work by utilizing the energy from the SOLAR ARRAYS and the power from the PV panel are stored in a battery. The power from the battery is inverted and given to the pump for irrigation. This pump is also controlled by the GSM module. The use of GSM mode is to start and stop working of pumps using mobile phone; the water level monitoring is also done by the GSM mode which this also provides the message the status for each hour. This is done with the embedded C in PIC16F877A microcontroller. The main advantage of this project is optimizing the power and also saving government´s free subsidiary electricity (22% of total power production in India). This proves an efficient and economy way of irrigation and this will automate the agriculture sector.
Keywords :
agriculture; cellular radio; invertors; microcontrollers; mobile handsets; photovoltaic power systems; GSM module; GSM technology; Global Service for Mobile communication module; India; PIC16F877A microcontroller; PV farmers pump; PV panel; agriculture sector; alternating current; direct current; inverter frequency; mobile phone; power supply; solar arrays; submersible monoblock pump; water level monitoring; Battery; GSM Module; Microcontroller; Photovoltaic cells; Submersible monoblock pump; Water Level Indicating sensor;
Conference_Titel :
Sustainable Energy and Intelligent Systems (SEISCON 2011), International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2011.0354