The unique vegetable irrigation system in Vietnam

By composing a regular message, the content is code and sent to the control box, after 10 seconds, the water begins to work. It is a unique initiative to irrigate vegetables with a private phone message from Mr. Bui Ngoc Minh Tam in Ho Chi Minh City to help grow clean vegetables at home.

The system irrigates vegetables through mobile phones

It has been about 2 years since I started growing vegetables, but farmer Bui Ngoc Minh Tam (SN 1978) - a farmer member in An Lac Ward, Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City, made many people admire the poisoning initiative. most of me. He used his cell phone to control watering vegetables, saving labor.

Graduating from university in 1996 with a major in automation from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Mr. Minh Tam worked for many foreign companies specialized in automation and processing aquatic food with a salary of a few dozen. million VND / month - the number that many people dream of. However, he quit his job and went to work as a farmer despite his friends and relatives.

Mr. Bui Ngoc Minh Tam and his family's way of growing clean vegetables

Only with a normal phone, the user composes a message , the content is code and sends it to the control box . After 10 seconds, the control box will open, the water begins to operate .

This invention has brought great efficiency to farmers, especially urban farmers: Wherever, at any time, just through telephone waves , farmers can carry out the vegetable irrigation work. me According to Mr. Vu Anh Tuan, General Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Computer Association, nowadays, the country has widely used the type of timer or control computer-based devices with the Internet.

These automated devices sometimes consume electricity and waste water because of natural conditions of Vietnam in the sun and rain. Besides, the cost of these forms is relatively high. New invention - Watering vegetables by phone is a practical and suitable solution for farmers.

It took Mr. Tam 2 years to invent a method of watering clean vegetables with mobile phones to help people grow clean vegetables

According to Mr. Tam, it takes more than 2 years to successfully research the vegetable irrigation system by mobile phone and officially put it into use in the family's vegetable garden since 2013. The design of this system includes a control cabinet with 2 modes are manual control and mobile phone.

In particular, if manually controlled farmers just press the button can be pumped. When not in farmers' houses, they want to irrigate vegetables, they can irrigate by composing a message according to the syntax and send a request, the control cabinet will respond and perform the watering operation as required by the message.

' With this device, even if I go thousands of kilometers away, I can still water my family's vegetable garden. Want to irrigate vegetables for a long time, at any time I can do it with just one message ' - Mr. Tam said.

Talking about the efficiency of the device, Mr. Tam said, the equipment helps a lot in production, namely saving labor . He cited to irrigate a vegetable garden about 1ha wide, used a lot of labor and lost the whole day, but with the control device for watering vegetables with mobile phones, it only needed about ten minutes. Particularly, the vegetable garden of his house with a total area of ​​more than 2,000m2, thanks to the application of this irrigation system, does not lose labor to irrigate vegetables.

Send a message with code

Performing watering vegetables with his patent device, Mr. Tam just needs to use the phone to compose a message and send it to the controller. When the clock reached the 10th second from the time of sending the message, it was also when Mr. Tam's phone rang, signaling the message from the control box that the water motor was started.

Immediately from above, the water began to spill down the vegetable garden. In just a few minutes many types of vegetables: lettuce, prawn, perilla . drenched from root to tip. After a few minutes of seeing the garden with enough water, Mr. Tam sent a message with the letter 'off', 10 seconds after the series stopped spraying water.

Although this device offers so many utilities, according to Mr. Tam, the cost to make it is only about 6 million VND / piece. If farmers have demand, he is willing to support installation.