PROJECT ON

AUTOMATIC MULTI SEED SOWING

MACHINE USING ARDUINO

Department of Electronics & Communication

Engineering
PROJECT GUIDE PRESENTED BY : BATCH NO. 1951

Y KARTHIK 15121A04P3
M. BALAJI, M.Tech., T UCCHA RANGA 15121A04M7
Asst. J DINESH 15121A04P8
Professor B MAHESH BABU 15121A04P6
Department of ECE CH PRUDHVI RAJ 16125A0412
 Contents
 Introduction
 Objectives and scope
 Problems Identified
 Research gap
 Block diagram
 Methodology of work
 Societal relevance
 Conclusion
 References

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 Introduction
 The major occupation of the Indian rural people is agriculture

and both men and women are equally involved in the process.

 Agriculture has been the backbone of the Indian economy and

it will continue to remain so for a long time.

 The basic objective of agriculture is sowing operation. It

means to put the seed in rows at desired spacing, cover the

seeds with soil and provide proper compaction over the seed.

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 The recommended row to row spacing, seed to seed spacing

vary from crop to crop and for different agricultural and

climatic conditions to achieve optimum yields and an efficient

sowing machine should attempt to fulfil these requirements.

 In addition, saving in cost of operation time, labour and

energy are other advantages to be derived from use of

improved machinery for such operations.

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 Objectives and scope
 Sowing seeds with proper distance:
Due to this machine we are able to plant seeds with proper
distance between them. So amount required to sowing of seed
per hector are fix. This also helps to increase the germination
of seed, because seed to seed space is proper so plant get
space to grow up.

 Reduce Time: The most important

objective for this invention is to reduce the time of sowing
seeds.

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 Reduce Work done:
Due to this invention the total work done by the farmer for
sowing is decreases, because the farmer have not to carry the
heavy bag of seeds throughout the sowing process.

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 Problems Identification:
 Wastage of seeds
 Irregular placing of seeds
 Time Consuming process

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 Research gap
 Existing method:
Previous year, our seniors work on similar project
of single seed sowing machine. To overcome some
issues in designing and to make this project more
useful to formers we chosen this project.
 Issues in design:
1. Only one outlet for seed dropping.
2. Using of timers.
3. Not getting single seed as output.
4. Reliability.
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 BLOCK DIAGRAM Proximity
OF AUTOMATIC sensor
MULTI SEED
SOWING
MACHINE M1

Motor
driver
Arduino
Mega256
M2
0
Battery
12v/1.3
Ah
Motor
driver

M1 M2 M3 M4

Proximit
9
y Sensor
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 Arduino Mega2560

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 ArduinoMega2560 Specifications

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 12V/300&60 RPM DC GEAR
MOTOR

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 Specifications of dc gear motor
 RPM=60&300
 OPERATING VOLTAGE=12v
 SHAFT DIAMETER=6mm
 TORQUE=2kg/cm
 NO LOAD CURRENT=60mA(max)
 FULL LOAD
CURRENT=300mA(max)

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 Proximity Sensor

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 Principal and 0peration of
proximity sensor
 Inductive proximity sensors are used for non-contact
detection of metallic objects.
 Their operating principle is based on a coil and oscillator that
creates an electromagnetic field in the close surroundings of
the sensing surface.

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 Contd...,

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 Motor driver(L298N)
 The L298N driver is a dual 4-
bridge motor driver which allows
speed and direction control of
two dc motors at the same time.
 Motor driver can drive dc motor
that have voltages between 5
and 35V with a peak current up
to 2A.

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 Motor driver(L298N)

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 Methodology of Work
 The first step is to go to the farmers and find the
problems faced by them.
 The second step is to choose a problem.
 The third step is to visit to agriculture firms.
 The fourth step is to Analyze the problem& their
solution.
 The fifth step is the selection of materials.
 The sixth step is to find which mechanism is to
suitable in lowest cost.
 The seventh step is to find all components we
require in proper dimension.
 The eight step to start fabrication.
 The last step is the testing of machine.

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 Societal relevance
 To provide reliable operation.
 Now-a-days government is also encouraging
this system by giving subsidies and loans to the
customers.
 By this, we can made farming of seeds so easy.
Due to this, losses can be reduced so that over
all yielding increases.

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 Conclusion
We can conclude that our fabricated machine is advantageous over the
existing machines in the following ways:
Control the seeds can be done with less loss.
It is of low cost comparatively and accounts less than 50% of the existing
costs.
The mode of operation is very simple even to the layman.
It is more efficient than the present existing machines of this category and
range.
The maintenance cost of this equipment is very less.
By using this machine we get accuracy in seeding.
This machine used in any type of soil.
Proper skill not required for operating this machine and easy to transferred.

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 References
[1]. Pradip S. Gunavant.s “Farm Mechanization by using Seed Planting
Machine” International Advanced Research Journal in Science,
Engineering and Technology National Conference on Design,
Manufacturing, Energy & Thermal Engineering(NCDMETE- 2017)
AGTI’s Dr. Daulatrao Aher College Engineering, Vidyanagar Extension,
Karad Vol. 4, Special Issue 1, January 2017.

[2]. Manjuath Pai “Study on Semi Automatic Vegetable Planting

Machine” National Conference on Advances in
Mechanical Engineering Science (NCAMES-2016) ISSN: 2231-
5381 http://www.ijettjournal.org A Study on Semi Automatic Vegetable
Planting Machine.

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[3]. D.Ramesh “Development Of Agriculture Seeding Equipment”
International Journal Of Informative & Futuristic Research An
Enlightening Online Open Access, Refereed & Indexed Journal Of
Multidisciplinary Research Volume -1 Issue -10, June 2014.

[4]. Prof. Mayuri Wandhare “Seed Sowing Fertilizer Drilling Machine”

IJISET - International Journal of Innovative Science, Engineering &
Technology, Vol. 3 Issue 4, April 2016.

[5]. Narode R.R.“Manually Operated Fertilizer Spreader” (

International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced
Engineering Website: www.ijetae.com (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008
Certified Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2, February 2015)

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Thank you...