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Abstract

This project was developed based on the needs and difficulties that arise in the rural sector, specifically with regard to water management and control. This important resource, essential for life and for living beings consumption, is often wasted with bad irrigation practices, generating an increase in the costs of this service for the production of agricultural activities in general. For this reason, the agricultural producer faces a series of difficulties when it comes to irrigating the crops, including factors such as: the amount of water to be supplied, the evapotranspiration, time, and other factors that directly affect the treatment of a crop. By means of the use of an Irrigation System and the information that it generated, it was possible to remotely monitor the irrigation activity, via online and through a graphic application or Internet access terminals, with a wireless sensor unit that consists of an RF transceiver, sensors, a microcontroller, power supplies, and several WSUs. These technological tools allowed us to use a sensor network spread out in the field or agricultural farm, designed and configured to be distributed in the automated irrigation system that controls three irrigation valves, allowing the management of each of the valves, in terms of dripping intensity and dripping time. This allowed for a more practical work in the agricultural farm, an important factor in reducing costs and contributing to the protection and improvement of the environmental management; it is in turn an activity that is poised to improve, in order to compete on a larger global scale, due to population growth and increased demand for food.