Smart Irrigation Monitoring System

I’m building a low-cost solution that proves every drop from a drip line reaches the roots. An Arduino at the field edge will poll soil-moisture, flow, and pressure sensors; a Raspberry Pi in the control shed will collect those readings, store them, analyse them, and show what’s happening in real time.

Here’s what I need you to take care of:

• Arduino firmware that reads the three sensor types, time-stamps the data, and streams it reliably to the Pi (serial, MQTT or another lightweight protocol—whichever you recommend for robustness in outdoor conditions).
• Raspberry Pi software (Python is fine, but I’m open) that persists the data, runs simple rules such as “did soil moisture rise within X minutes of irrigation?” and flags blocked emitters, line leaks, or pump failure.
• A web dashboard hosted on the Pi with the visualisations I’ve ticked: graphs and charts for trends, tables for raw logs, maps to locate problem trees, plus a one-click downloadable report.
• Real-time alerts pushed to chat apps only—specifically WhatsApp and Telegram—whenever thresholds or anomaly patterns fire. No email or SMS needed at this stage.
• Clear documentation so I can expand the rule set later and add more sensor nodes if the orchard grows.

Deliverables are the commented source code, deployment instructions that work on a fresh Pi OS image, and a short video or screenshots that show the system detecting a forced fault (e.g., a simulated blocked emitter). If that sounds like your kind of build, let’s talk timelines and milestones.