Ijraset Journal For Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
Authors: Dr. A. H. Ingle, Mahesh D. Meshram, Manish I. Thakre, Mo. Sahil K. Sheikh, Nayan M. Potdar, Nihal J. Jadhao, Niraj R. Dudhe
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.44505
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From the time immemorial, the sun is the major source of energy for life on earth used for heat and lighting. Nowadays, solar energy has been known as a renewable energy source. It is an alternative energy to that of fossil fuel and it can be collected from the renewable resources such as sun, wind and hydro. This paper introduces a new development of grass cutter, named as Smart Solar Grass Cutter, by using solar irradiance as a primary energy source with the presence of a solar panel. This grass cutter prototype is developed to reduce air pollutant and improve the current design specifically the blade position based on the previous studies. With current technology, this new prototype is designed as remotely controlled grass cutter using Arduino UNO. Smartphone is used as the remote controller. After developing an established prototype, the design analysis is carried out to be validate with the theoretical values to ensure that the prototype can be safely used. The Smart Solar Grass Cutter can operate more than two hours when the used battery is fully charged. Based upon the results, the Smart Solar Grass Cutter is reliable with high efficiency of the system compared to the previous studies. Therefore, it can be concluded that the prototype is reliable and environmentally friendly.
I. INTRODUCTION
India is a grarian economies and most of rural populations depend on agriculture to earn their livelihood. The farming methods at present are manual or semi-automatic with high involvement of labourers. In the recent years, the number of labour availability is reducing continuously along with increase in their wages.
There is a requirement of higher productivity. Hence the device is to be designed which helps farmers to overcome the stated problem. Automated Machines can provide us the solution. The main application of machines in the commercial sector has been concerned with the substitution of manual human labour by machines or mechanized systems to make the work more time efficient, accurate, uniform and less costly.
One may argue the social implications of such developments, for example, the effects on employment through loss of blue-collar jobs to the more efficient machinic counterpart; there are also ethical considerations that may be argued. Whilst there may well be some validity to the argument in some cases, this current project is unique in the number of stakeholders that are affected in a positive sense. The farmers benefits are found in more efficient maintenance of the crops and either less work for themselves or a decreased need for the employment of others (arguably, an expensive process). Increased demand on growers has begun to be met with increased specific automation in many fields, as producers believe that automation is a viable and sometimes necessary method to ensure maximum profits with minimum costs. Indeed, Hopkins argues that automation enables the expansion of a farm without having to invest more financial resources on labour. Merchants may benefit from increased sales due to a lower cost product; the consumers will benefit, likewise, from a lower cost product of comparable quality. The stakeholders that benefit most, at least from an ethical or social perspective, however, are the farm workers. This project presents the design and construction of an autonomous machine that seeks to address some of the human health concerns associated with farms. This machine is designed as a base for developing systems to enable the automation of farming processes such as the spraying of pesticides, picking of fruit and the caring for diseased plants. The system is designed to be as modular as possible, enabling the development and/or modification of any of the individual tasks.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
1) The prototype gave a fairly good rate of area coverage with a reasonably low operating cost. The system addresses the issue of dearth of agricultural labour and ensures safe agricultural practices by completely eliminating, handling of harmful chemicals, cutting crops and extensive labour by the farmer as it can be operated remotely. 2) The proposed spraying & mower Machine is suitable for small and medium scale farmers. Large scale production of the spraying unit will reduce the cost significantly giving partial thrust to Indian agriculture practices. 3) The unit can be scaled up based on the requirement. The developed system can not only be used for spraying fertilizer, pesticides, fungicides, lawn watering and crop cutting, weeding and lawn mowing but also for maintenance of sports fields like cricket ground. 4) With the proposed design of the Machine in this project, the above mentioned gaps can be eliminated completely. This project integrates two of the major activities in agriculture which are Pesticide spraying and Crop Cutting (or Weed Removal). 5) Workload on the farmers is decreased and health problems also. Successful in constructing Machine which can be travelled on rough, uneven surfaces also and weighing enough load of pump and other equipment. Successful in developing a Machine whose construction is enough to withstand the challenges of the field.
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Paper Id : IJRASET44505
Publish Date : 2022-06-18
ISSN : 2321-9653
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