Sensors for Agriculture & Water

1. Sensors for Water &
Agriculture
Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy
Coordinator, ClimaAdapt,
WALAMTARI, Hyderabad
17thMarch2015

2. Project Area
Krishna Basin
Cauvery Basin
NSPL, DC 4, Nalgonda district
NSPR, DC 21, Guntur district

3. Significant achievements
State Level Supervisory Committee meetings held
Climate Cell established at WALAMTARI
Canal Network Flow Monitoring System (CNFMS) established at WALAMTARI
Established sensors lab at WALAMTARI
Established sensors park at WALAMTARI
Developed sensors for monitoring water at on-farm, canal and reservoir level
Increased participation of women in capacity building activities
Side event , Exhibition and participation at 22nd ICID Congress, Gwangju, South Korea, Sept
2014
Organised A.P. Water Week, 2014
National workshop on Climate Change Water and Improving water use efficiency. November
2014

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DC4, MIRYALAGUDA CIRCLE DC21, LINGAMGUNTLA CIRCLE
Project areas within the province
DC- Distributary Committee
CNFMS Pilot AREAS

5. • Monitoring
• Control centre
• Sensors lab
• Software development
• Operation and maintenance - Sensors,
instruments, transducers, communication
systems, power, etc.
• Decision support systems – Information
visualization, Graphics, Artificial
Intelligence, analysis, reports, etc.
WATER
MANAGEMENT
CENTRE
WATER MANAGEMENT

6. Water Use Efficiency
MONITORING
WATER AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
PARAMETERS
MONITORING
MANAGEMENT
DECISION
SUPPORT
SYSTEMS

7. Climate Cell
WALAMTARI, AP
Projects
ClimaAdapt
Project
Canal Network flow
monitoring system
Sensors Development
Research and studiesForum
Climate Water Forum –
discussion groups,
website
Networking
Meetings / conferences
/ seminars / workshops
Capacity building
Training, awareness,
sensitization, etc.
Dissemination - Online /
Print – Books , booklets,
magazines , posters,
Publications
STAKEHOLDERS
•IRRIGATION
DEPARTMENT
•LINE
DEPARTMENTS
•CIVIL SOCIETY
•PUBLIC SECTOR
•PRIVATE SECTOR
PRIMARY
STAKEHOLDERS
-FARMERS’
ASSOCIATIONS
-SHG WOMEN
-YOUTH &
CHILDREN
POLICY /
ADVOCACY
I & CAD
Bioforsk and project
partners

8. Software and
Sensors Dev. Team
RESEARCH IMPLEMENTATIONCAPACITY BUILDING
- Superintending
Engineer and
team
- Farmers
Associations and
other institutions
- Farmers
- WALAMTARI
- Field Training
Centres
- Water Manager
- PhD Scholars
- Internships
Canal Network Flow
Monitoring System [CNFMS]
Design
- Project
Leader
-Software
Engineer
Implement
- AEE
-AEE
-AEE
ClimaAdapt
I&CAD
BIOFORSK &
PARTNERS
WALAMTARI
CNFMS
WATER
MANAGEMENT
Sensors and
Instruments Lab
Sensors Development

9. Technical Architecture CNFMS

10. Water level measurement in open
canal using three ultrasonic sensors

11. DC-4 – INSTALLED SENSORS FOR MONITORING WATER LEVEL,
TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY

13. Sensors installed for water level at Nagarjuna Sagar Reservoir

14. Pilot Field area
With sensors

15. Solar Power
Arduino, SIM 900, Battery,
Temp and Relative Humidity
sensor
Bowman Water Tube with
ultrasonic sensor
RBC Flume with ultrasonic
sensor

16. Water Level in Field water tube (Bowman) using
ultrasonic sensor

18. Water Level and discharge measuring
using ultrasonic sensor in RBC Flume
Ultrasonic sensor

20. Glow Level – Color LEDs for
different water levels as
signals
Water

21. Glow Level – Color LEDs for
different water levels as
signals
Water

22. Glow Level
for Tube wells
– Colour LEDs
for different
levels of
water in the
tube wells

23. Glow Level
for Tube wells
– Colour LEDs
for different
levels of
water in the
tube wells

24. Glow Level systems applied in a field

25. Glow Level along the canals / streams / rivers

26. Soil Moisture measurement in
the soil at various depths using
ER sensors and Arduino

27. DATA VISUALISATION
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RBC Flume water flows (inlet), Research Field, Kondrapole

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Bowman water tube reading at outlet - Research Field, Kondrapole

30. http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=ITELANGA3#history
AUTOMATIC WEATHER
STATION

31. Ultrasonic sensors for water level
Temperature and relative humidity sensor
Soil Moisture sensor

32. GSM BOARD FOR SENDING SMS
Arduino Uno Microcontroller

34. CLICK sensor for soil moisture with GSMTWEET sensor for water level with GSM

35. TWEET AND CLICK
TWEET sensor for water level with GSM CLICK sensor for soil moisture with GSM

40. Smart Technology Systems
# Component Application Identified options
1 Hardware /
Instruments
Information collection
sensors / instruments
Water level Ultrasonic sensor, For water flows
and quantity Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler,
Sensors for soil moisture, Temperature, relative
humidity, solar radiation
Cameras for collecting photos and videos
3D Mapping
Information
processing and
receivers
Computers, Servers, Laptops, Tablets, Smart
Phones
Sensors development
and maintenance
Sensors and instrumentation lab
Decision support
system
Control centre
Communication or
information transfer
systems
Satellite communication, Radio Frequency,
telephone, cell phone
Wifi, blue tooth, GSM and data logger
Control Center Automation, Semi-automation and manual
systems

41. # Component Application Identified options
2 SOFTWARE CNFMS – Java, SCADA, PID etc., softwares
GIS / Remote sensing,
Big data,
Information visualization

42. Digital Pulsed Doppler or
Acoustic Doppler current profiler
contact type
• Pulsed wave (PW) Doppler systems use a transducer
that alternates transmission and reception of
ultrasound.
• One main advantage of pulsed Doppler is its ability to
provide Doppler shift data selectively from a small
segment along the ultrasound beam, referred to as the
“sample volume”.
• The location of the sample volume is operator
controlled.
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43. River Surveyor

44. Smart phones and tablets

50. Drones Imaging and 3D

52. Meteorological predictions and information
Weather forecast
information to mobiles
Pest and disease surveillance
for major crops
Weather based crop
insurance products Computer-
models
ObservationsWeather
information
VIPS

53. http://washtech.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/monitoring-water-for-people-launches-android-app/
Real time Maps

54. Real-time data
The application allows water users to instantly access information from
handheld devices on stream for surface water, tanks, major reservoir
levels, canal water flows/levels.
Water levels and
flows
Storage elevations,
volumes and
discharges
Ground water
levels.
Determine
water
availability,
water
allocations
and water
releases
evaluate the
performance
of water
sharing plans
predict flood
levels to
protect people
and property
manage
surface and
groundwater
resources

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