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This paper will discuss the design of an automated prototype pig farm water aid. The project has been completed and tested to work properly. The aim of this project is to utilize a microcontroller to control the living environment of pig farm by utilizing various hardware and software. In the farm industry, what defines a successful business from failure is the profit made. Many farmers can argue that the time spent on an animal for profit must profitable in the long run. There have been issues where the farmer sometimes let his animals dehydrate due to the lack of attention, causing major loss in his business. To solve this problem, a prototype system has been designed and constructed that would allow the animal be given water without any assistance from the farmer. Our team has developed an automatic water system prototype, using simple logic gates and low cost components, that automatically refills the water as needed. The system contains no “hard to build” procedures and as a bonus, our team also included a temperature sensor that controls the temperature in the cage, cooling down the animal as necessary. To reduce the electricity cost of this system, our team also placed a power supply using solar panels and rechargeable batteries to power up the system. This project would benefit both small and large scale pig farms by reducing cost of operation, manual labor, and increasing productivity.