Connected Soil Moisture Sensor

Project in progress

Components and supplies

Arduino 101 & Genuino 101

Soil Moisture Sensor

Can also use Sparkfun's moisture sensor

Resistor 10k ohm

Pullup for analog input.

About this project

This is a very basic project that connects an analog moisture sensor to an Arduino/Genuino 101 board. The firmware takes measurements every 500ms and stores the value in a BLE characteristic that can be read. Use nRF Connect or write your own BLE code to read the values as they change.

This is one of a few sensors I'm creating for a larger smart home automation concept. Most of them will work in a similar manner, with either an analog or digital value being read and then shared via BLE.

Code

Soil Moisure Sensor Arduino/Genuino 101 CodeArduino

Upload the code to your Arduino/Genuino 101. Use an app like nRF Connect or write your own BLE code to read/receive updated values for the soil moisture sensor.

#include <BLEAttribute.h>
#include <BLECentral.h>
#include <BLECharacteristic.h>
#include <BLECommon.h>
#include <BLEDescriptor.h>
#include <BLEPeripheral.h>
#include <BLEService.h>
#include <BLETypedCharacteristic.h>
#include <BLETypedCharacteristics.h>
#include <BLEUuid.h>
#include <CurieBLE.h>

//Soil sensor analog input pin
const int soilPin = A0;

BLEPeripheral blePeripheral;

//Soil Service and Characteristic - Custom UUID
BLEService soilService("19B10030-E8F2-537E-4F6C-D104768A1214");
BLEIntCharacteristic soilCharacteristic("19B10031-E8F2-537E-4F6C-D104768A1214", BLERead | BLENotify);





void setup() {
  //Set peripheral name and advertised services.
  blePeripheral.setLocalName("SoilSense");
  blePeripheral.setAdvertisedServiceUuid(soilService.uuid());
  blePeripheral.addAttribute(soilService);
  blePeripheral.addAttribute(soilCharacteristic);
  //set initial soil value to 0
  soilCharacteristic.setValue(0);
  //start peripheral
  blePeripheral.begin();
}

void loop() {
  //poll peripheral and read/set value
  blePeripheral.poll();
  int soilValue = analogRead(soilPin);
  Serial.println(soilValue);
  boolean soilChanged = (soilCharacteristic.value() != soilValue);

  if (soilChanged) {
    soilCharacteristic.setValue(soilValue);
  }
  //delay
  delay(500);
 }