IJEP 44(8): 727-733 : Vol. 44 Issue. 8 (August 2024)
1. Kongu Engineering College, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Erode – 638 060, Tamil Nadu, India
2. Kumaraguru Institute of Agriculture, Department of Social Sciences, Erode – 638 315, Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract
Weeding is the process of removing and controlling unwanted weeds that grow between crops in agricultural fields. A wide variety of weed removal systems at present use a variety of significant methods and technologies. Most farmers prefer chemical and manual weeding. The use of chemicals is harmful to humans and continuous usage of chemicals leads to damage to the nature of soil as well as it causes more pollution in the environment. When it comes to manual method the time required to remove weeds is high, which requires more manpower. Moreover, the manual method is expensive because the workers’ wages are high. To prevent this, a weeding machine was introduced. To operate the machine a person needs to push the machine throughout the field. This method again is a manpower consumption process and some of these machines operate with fossil fuels, which leads to pollution. So, we designed a smartphone-controlled solar-powered weed remover where labour consumption and pollution generation are reduced. A person can easily control the machine using only a mobile phone through the Internet of Things. An application interface is designed where several direction keys are designed to control the direction of the machine.
Keywords
Weeding machine, Solar-powered, Internet of Things, Mobile phone, Application
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