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Design And Development of Solar Powered Rainfall

Parameter Monitoring System
Dineshkumar.R1, Niruban Chakravarthy.K2, Kumaresan.K3, Ramkumar.S4
1, 2, 3, 4 Dept of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
1, 2, 3, 4 Kongunadu Polytechnic College, Dindigul, TamilNadu, India.

Abstract- In India utmost of the people is dependent on II. RAINFALL MONITORING SYSTEM OVERVIEW
agriculture. For effective planning in agriculture rainfall
monitoring is utmost significance. So farmers are always The rainfall monitoring system consists of Arduino
interested in the Weather augur. As farmers stay in remote Uno board with atmega328p microcontroller, DHT11 sensor,
areas, they have to wait for the news updates in television, rain sensor, LDR module, and LCD display for monitoring.
radio or additional other. So that farmers can take early
decision for his ranch. Rainfall monitoring system using A. Arduino UNO
Arduino UNO which measured rainfall parameters like
ambient air temperature, humidity, Snow status and rain. The Arduino is an open source electronics prototyping
rainfall monitoring system has a display to check all platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software.
parameters and the same weather data are displayed in It is intended for artists, contrivers, potteries and anyone
television. The rainfall monitoring system is easy to handle, interested in creating interactive objects or surroundings.
lightweight, and low cost as compared the other weather Arduino Uno is based on ATmega328 microcontroller
station. (MCU).It consists of 14 digital input/output pins, six analogue
inputs, a USB connection for programming the on board
Keywords- Agriculture, Arduino UNO, Temperature, MCU, a power jack, an ICSP header and a reset button. It is
Humidity, Snow and Rain, LCD display. operated with a 16MHz crystal oscillator and contains
everything demanded to support the MCU. It is very easy to
I. INTRODUCTION use as you simply need to connect it to a computer using a
USB cable, or power it with an AC-to-DC appendage or
The rainfall monitoring system is a major instrument battery to get started.
installed at remote areas. The real-time performance weather
can be fluently cover with the help of the weather monitoring
system. We can use weather data to get perceptivity about
remote areas. Weather monitoring using Arduino UNO which
may measure rainfall parameters like Ambient air temperature,
Relative moisture, Air pressure, wind speed, wind direction,
Solar radiation, and rain. But we are measured rainfall
parameter like Temperature, humidity, snow status and rain
fall. This rain fall system specifically developed for farmers
where dimension Temperature, humidity, snow status and rain Fig. 1. Arduino UNO
fall. The rainfall station has an onboard display installation to
check all parameters. In this paper we’ve used Arduino B. LCD Display
controller, LCD display(20*4),rain sensor, humidity sensor
and LDR module to monitor all rainfall data’s the same time A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display
data are display to LCD display. Arduino module to cover all or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the
data and control the operation of the system. light-modulating parcels of liquid chargers. Liquid chargers do
not emit light directly, rather using a backlight or glass to
DHT 11 sensor sense the ambient air temperature and produce images in color or snap.
humidity, rain sensor sense the rain fall status and snow status
and LDR module which is used to mention day/night time.

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here match the cable that was supplied with the anemometer.
The anemometer requires a 4k7 resistor that is not shown here
(not used in our project).Rain sensor connected to digital pin
of Arduino it measured rain fall and snow status. In
connection illustration rather rain sensor we used moisture
Fig. 2. LCD display sensor, LDR module connected to digital pin 4 of Arduino it
used to find day/night.
C. DHT 11 sensor module

Moisture is the measure of water vapor present in

the air. The position of moisture in air affects various physical,
chemical and natural processes. In industrial applications,
moisture can affect the business cost of the products, health
and safety of the employees. So, in semiconductor industries
and control system industries measurement of moisture is
veritably important. moisture measurement determines the
amount of moisture present in the gas that can be a admixture
of water vapor, nitrogen, argon or pure gas etc.

Fig. 5. Connection diagram

IV. DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

An effective Rainfall monitoring system is presented

in the design. This system has two main modules: the
Fig. 3. DHT 11 sensor module
hardware and the software. The hardware system consists of
an Arduino Uno board, DHT11 sensor, rain sensor, LDR
C. Rain sensor module
module.
Currently, conserving water as well as its proper
usage is essential in everyone’s life. Then a sensor videlicet
This system uses an Arduino Uno board since it is an
rain sensor which is used to descry the rain and induce an
open-source electronics platform based on easy to-use
alarm. So, we can conserve water to use it latterly for different
hardware and software. The open source development is a
purposes. There are several styles available for conserving
dependable means of designing and developing. Further, the
water like harvesting, etc using this system we can increase
Arduino board is integrated with DHT 11 sensor to descry
the position of underground water.
detecting the change in temperature and humidity, and rain
sensor detect the rain fall and snow status. As an output, the
system will show in 20*4 LCD display. We will be able to
dissect the temperature, humidity, rain fall and snow status
fluently through LCD
display.
Fig. 4. Rain sensor module

III. CONNECTION DIAGRAM

The rainfall station is powered by 12V DC. This is

also fed into a DC-DC buck converter that takes the 12V input
and outputs 9V. The 9V is also fed into the Arduino board.
The DS18B20 requires a 4k7 pull-up resistor that is not shown
here. This sensor also requires 2 resistors. The colors shown

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or correctness that existed was deeply moved or hurt

emotionally. To cover the changes, a conclusive plan needs to
be prepared.

To accomplish this, we used a alternate-hand Arduino

Uno and various sensors such as the DHT11, LDR sensor, and
raindrop sensor. The sensors slightly sense the weather limit
and keep ahead of communicating it to the LCD display.

VII. ACKNOWLEDGMENT

First and foremost, we would like to thank our

founder Dr.S.Rajan for giving us an opportunity to work on
Fig.6. Design of Proposed system this challenging topic and providing me ample guidance and
support the course of this research.
V. RESULT
My heartfelt thanks to our advisor K.Ayyadurai for
In the rainfall monitoring system fully shown here. providing all the necessary facilities that was required at our
Initially Arduino connected 5V supply and Arduino provide college.
supply to other sensor and LED’s. Then Arduino read data
from various sensors and reused. The proposed system is I would to express my special thanks to our Principal
enforced. Sensor data is being covered over the LCD display. K.Venkatesh valuable support and provide all facility.
In this rainfall monitoring system whenever there is no rain
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Weather is an everyday circumstance, but the mood of
a situation is determined by the average rainfall of a region
over an horizon less scale. Weather changes concerning the
position on the globe of a place, so indeed narrow changes
have the possibility of bringing about abundant things ahead
of bureaucracy. The increasing cruel state of being active and
increasing manufacturing has had a severe effect on the
rainfall environment in recent years. Over time, the perfection

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