The world is going towards a more specialized version of everything. Hearing about a farmer that wakes up early to water his plants is something normal to hear. But this project purpose is to change this normal, going towards a better, specialized, and intelligent version. Furthermore, Using Artificial intelligence (AI) the project is solving two important grand challenges of Egypt: Increasing the industrial and agricultural bases of Egypt, which acts as a challenge because agriculture is the base and the raw material of mostly everything, and Managing and increasing the sources of clean water, which is causing a challenge because of the increment of water demand as the population increases. The solution is a system that measures the height, moisture, and temperature, then integrates this data knowing the plant type to provide a very specialized plan of water and nutrients to the plants. This way the project is able to fulfill the design requirements which are: intelligence in the aspect of accuracy and level of intelligence, the applicability, and the low cost.
Moreover, to construct a prototype for this project Arduino UNO and AI python coding are used as a microprocessor and AI department to integrate the data, then it was trained to collect the data and set a best fit equation for it to be able to predict the desired outputs. Testing and observing the system had given some findings which are: specialized irrigation and fertilizing have lower cost where it is quarter the cost of other smart irrigation system. The system is on level one of intelligence so it was able to preform the required tasks, and the system was pretty accurate with accuracy of 99.1%. Moreover, the used mechanisms in the project helped it to applicable.
In conclusion, The AI system is much better than the ordinary ways of irrigation and fertilizing, where a specialized plan gives better cost, more intelligence and less effort.