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Research Paper Vol. 9, Issue.2, February 2021 E-ISSN: 2347-2693

IOT Based Smart Irrigation System using Cisco Packet Tracer

Sanskruti Raut1*, Sumitra N. Motade2

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School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, MIT World Peace University, Pune, India
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Corresponding Author:[email protected], Tel.: +919082507080

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26438/ijcse/v9i2.1216 | Available online at: www.ijcseonline.org

Received: 03/Feb/2021, Accepted: 04/Feb/2021, Published: 28/Feb/2021

Abstract— Irrigation system is a method used to supply water to the plants as uniformly as possible. In the Internet of
Things (IoT), technology devices or sensors are connected via the internet and can be remotely operated and monitored by
the user. In this research paper, the implementation is done by performing the simulation for a smart irrigation system with
the help of the Cisco packet tracer simulation software with new version Cisco Packet Tracer 7.3.0 (64-bit). This
technology can be implemented for developing a smart irrigation system, which consists of devices like a lawn sprinkler,
temperature monitor, Humidity monitor, etc., to automate the watering system and remotely monitor the environmental
conditions for better growth of the plants. All the devices are connected to the home gateway and can be remotely operated
and monitored using a Tablet/PC/Smartphone. Simulation results show that the smart devices such as a sprinkler system
and other essential devices for monitoring environmental conditions are connected to the home portal and can be
successfully monitored, which helps the farmers/homeowners to grow and maintain plants with ease.

Keywords— Internet of Things, Cisco Packet Tracer, Smart Irrigation System

I. INTRODUCTION The other aspects include the monitoring of environmental

conditions by various sensors that are crucial for strong
The term IoT means ‘Internet of Things’, which was and verdant growth of plants, which includes Temperature
coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999 [1]. It is a budding monitor, Pressure monitor, Carbon dioxide detector,
technology that plays a major role in today’s life to Carbon monoxide detector, Wind detector, and Humiture
interconnect devices and the internet in a network, which monitor. The smart devices are connected to the home
in turn enables them to send and receive data [2]. gateway and can be remotely operated and monitored by
using a Tablet/PC/Smartphone. It also has a motion
There are many problems faced by the farmers or the detector alarm for animals. It uses a microcontroller to
homeowners having a lawn space for gardening and the operate and alarms the owner if motion is detected near the
maintenance of the plants due to the changing irrigation field.
environmental conditions. IoT technology can help the
farmers/homeowners to maintain a proper irrigation system The simulation results show that smart devices are
that can be automated and remotely operated from any part connected to the home gateway and can be remotely
of the world. operated, monitored, and automated according to the
In today’s busy world, if the homeowners are not present requirements.
in the house to take care of the plants, this technology can Cisco Packet Tracer is a visual simulation tool developed
help them to easily monitor the devices and thus helps to by Cisco that gives users the chance to make network
overcome the disadvantage of manual monitoring. topologies and imitates modern computer networks. It
allows you to simulate routers and switches by using a
In this work, Smart Irrigation system consists of smart simulated command-line interface.
devices that automate the irrigation system that allows the
homeowners to automate the lawn sprinkler/ watering The rest of the paper is organized as follows, Section I
system according to the level of the water shown by the contains the introduction of IoT and its implementation for
water level monitor, which results in turning the water Smart Irrigation System, Section II contain the related
drain on or off accordingly. Smart Irrigation system work of the projects, Section III contains the methodology
provides various automating activities such as controlling of the Smart irrigation system, Section IV describes results
the humidity levels of the plants. The humidity sensor and discussion and Section V concludes research work
monitors the level and turns the humidifier on or off after it with future directions.
reaches a certain level set according to the requirements of
the owner. II. RELATED WORK

As mentioned in the reference paper [3], a greenhouse

monitoring system is developed based on IoT using the

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packet tracer simulation software. It uses the statistical data system, humidity monitoring system, Temperature
from the sensors and the information stored in a cloud. In monitor, Pressure monitoring, Motion detector system,
Paper [4], an automated system for irrigation is developed Humiture monitor, Wind detector, Carbon monoxide
by analyzing the moisture level of the ground. This system detector, and Carbon dioxide detector. All these smart IoT
makes use of two microcontrollers, Raspberry pi and systems and devices are connected to the internet by using
Arduino respectively. The system represented in [5] a home gateway and can be controlled using a Tablet.
represents a smart home system using cisco packet tracer Table 1 shows the devices used and their function.
that uses the IoT technology to automate various activities
of the house. The theme in [6] aims for a high-level Table 1. Devices used
monitoring and controlling of the data for agriculture Sr.
Device Function
monitoring system which monitors the real-time data from No.
the crop-field using Raspberry pi and cloud-based IoT Server is used to interconnect the home
1 Server
system to a cellular network
systems. As mentioned in this paper [7], The use of
Cable
automation systems in wireless technology has several 2 It is used to provide internet connection
Modem
advantages that wired systems cannot provide. The
3 Cloud Cloud is used to store data
wireless systems reduce the installation costs since the
hardware requirement is low and no cabling is necessary. Home Provides internet access and local
4
Wireless systems are scalable and expandable. Internet gateway connection to the IoT network
Switches allow different devices on a
connectivity is another factor that plays crucial role in 5 Switch
network to communicate
order to control devices from all around the world. As Lawn
proposed in this paper [8], for controlling the sensors, a 6 A sprinkler for Lawn
Sprinkler
Microcontroller (MCU-PT) and Home Gateway is used Water level
which provides programming environment for controlling 7 Used for water level detection
monitor
devices that are connected to the home gateway. Drains out water at a rate of 0.5cm per
8 Water Drain
hour
III. METHODOLOGY Light It is used to give light indication if the
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indicator system is on
The design of the Smart Irrigation system has been done Temperature monitor is a device that
Temperature gathers data concerning temperature from
by using the Cisco Packet Tracer simulation software. 10
monitor the environment and converts it to a
Cisco Packet Tracer is an innovative and powerful network readable form of data
simulator that can be used for building a network with Pressure
routers, switches, wireless, and much more. It allows to 11 Atmospheric pressure detection
monitor
experiment with network behavior, device configuration, Humidity and Temperature monitor.
and building models. Smart Irrigation system design Humiture Displays current humiture, which is
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includes a tablet and home gateway used to connect to monitor (temperature+ humidity)/2 to the closest
various devices like temperature monitor, lawn sprinkler, integer
water level monitor, and other sensors. Home gateway is Humidity
13 Detects and displays humidity level
used to connect all the smart devices, and Tablet is used to monitor
communicate with the smart devices. 14 Humidifier It is used to increase the humidity
Microcontroller board for interconnecting
15 MCU board
devices
16 Alarm It is triggered when motion is detected
Motion
17 It is used for detecting motion
sensor
Carbon
18 monoxide Detects level of carbon monoxide
detector
Carbon
19 dioxide Detects level of carbon dioxide
detector
Wind
20 Detects wind in the environment
detector

A. Home Gateway
To connect to the network, either a home gateway is
Figure 1. Block Diagram of Smart Irrigation System required or a registration server. After connecting to the
PC or a tablet to the home gateway, the devices can be
Fig 1 shows the block diagram of the Smart Irrigation turned on and off using the features of the home gateway.
system, which is implemented using the Cisco Packet Fig 2 shows the physical configuration of the home
Tracer. The block diagram contains an Automatic sprinkler gateway.

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B. Automatic Sprinkler System

The automatic sprinkler system consists of a lawn
sprinkler, water level monitor, water drain, and a light
indicator. The water level monitor is used for water level
detection. The user can set the parameters for the water
level monitor according to requirements. If the level of the
water goes up to the minimum required level, it turns the
lawn sprinkler off and turns the water drain on
automatically. Similarly, it turns the Sprinkler on if the
level of water is less than the required level. The light
indication is provided when the irrigation system is on to
alert the users. This feature of the Automatic lawn
sprinkler system eliminates the disadvantages of manual
monitoring of the irrigation system. The lawn sprinkler and
other devices in the system can be controlled manually
too.
Figure 2. Physical configuration of home gateway

The home gateway provides internet access and wireless

connectivity to the network and acts as a local connection
to the IoT smart devices. The device has an internet port,
four LAN ports, and multiple antennae. After connecting
the home gateway to the existing network, the network
settings are need to be set that are configurable by clicking
on the config tab. The IP addressing information can be
seen under the internet settings tab after connecting the
device to the existing network. The wireless settings need
to be configured by entering the home gateway SSID and
selecting WPA2-PSK PSK passphrase and a password for
authentication and validation of the wireless network. The
next step is to connect the IoT smart devices to the home
gateway.
Figure 4. Automatic Sprinkler System

C. Humidity Monitoring System

Figure 3. Connection of devices to home gateway

Figure 5. Humidity monitoring system
Fig 3 shows the connection of the home gateway with the
devices. To configure and register the smart IoT devices
Humidity monitoring is a crucial aspect of irrigation. Smart
with a home gateway, the following steps should be done.
monitoring of humidity levels can increase the chances of
Select the device, and in the I/O config, select wireless
good produce and smart irrigation. Fig 5. Shows the
adapter from the network adapter dropdown list. Select
Humidity monitoring system, which is one of the aspects
Config to verify that the device has established a wireless
of a smart irrigation system. In this system, a humidity
connection to the correct SSID. Then, Select
sensor is used. Humidity sensors are used to sense the
Config/Settings and select the home gateway as the IoT
humidity in the environment. This sensor is registered to
server registration device.
the home gateway. After the network configurations, the

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values of the humidity sensor can be viewed on the Tablet.

Further, to make it more convenient, a humidifier is used.
A humidifier is a device used for increasing the level of
moisture in the environment. The users can set the
conditions accordingly.

Figure 8. IoT devices displayed on the Tablet

Figure 6. Shows the conditions set for the automatic water

sprinkler system and humidity monitoring system.

D. Other Monitoring Devices

The germination time of the seeds and plants may shorten
due to frequent changes in the atmospheric pressure. This
System has an Atmospheric Pressure level indicator for
proper monitoring of atmospheric pressure levels and
taking adequate measures that may help to increase the
growth of plants and cause more massive and rapid root
growth. Another aspect is the Humiture monitor, which Figure 9. The numerical values of the sensors
helps in monitoring both temperature and humidity levels.
The temperature monitor senses the temperature levels in Fig 9. shows the numerical values of the sensors that are
the atmosphere. The Wind detector detects wind in the displayed on the Tablet. It shows the status of the IoT
environment. The carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide devices registered with the home gateway. These devices
detect the carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide levels, can be manually as well as automatically monitored.
respectively.
V. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE

A smart irrigation system is implemented using the Cisco

packet tracer. A home gateway to register the devices and
control them using a tablet. All the IoT devices connected
to the home gateway can be monitored manually as well as
remotely by the user. The results prove that there is an
opportunity of applying this model in real life. The
implementation of the automatic irrigation system can be
used to reduce the use of water. The system can be
manually monitored, it can increase the energy efficiency
and savings. It also makes it convenient for the user to
access all the devices through the smartphone. In the field
of IoT, ensuring security should be a priority. Since the
Figure 7. Overall Network
IoT devices are interconnected to each other, the network
should be secured. In this system, an authentication
IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION gateway is designed that requires password to check
authenticity of the home user for security purpose. To
After registration of the devices with the home gateway, to extend this system to be more robust and efficient in the
control the IoT devices remotely using a tablet. The future, modifications can be made to make the system
registered IoT devices can be viewed on the tablet. The more secure. If abnormalities in the system are detected,
devices can be manually operated as well as the values can the system should send an SMS or an Email to alert the
be viewed and monitored in real-time. user.

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REFERENCES AUTHORS PROFILE

Miss. Sanskruti Raut currently
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Research (IJSR), Vol. 5 Issue. 7, July 2016. Technological University, Lonere in year 2009. She has
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International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control Peace University, Pune in 2020. She is a life member of
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Automation: A Literature Review”, International Journal of
Computer Applications conferences including IEEE and it’s also available online.
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and control of home appliances.” Arid Zone Journal of years of teaching experience.
Engineering, Technology and Environment 13: 523-534, 2017.

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