Design and development of smart greenhouse for crops using ioT

The smart greenhouse is a revolution in agriculture, creating a self-regulating, microclimate suitable for plant growth through the use of sensors, actuators, and monitoring and control systems that optimise growth conditions and automate the growing process. The market is expected to witness

Project Title

Design and development of smart greenhouse for crops using ioT

Project Area of Specialization

Internet of Things

Project Summary

The smart greenhouse is a revolution in agriculture, creating a self-regulating, microclimate suitable for plant growth through the use of sensors, actuators, and monitoring and control systems that optimise growth conditions and automate the growing process.

The market is expected to witness significant growth due to increasing population, climate change and, urbanisation. Smart farming is also expected to develop at a very fast rate. However, high installation prices and high initial investment costs may inhibit growth in non-developed countries such as the Middle East & Africa.
 

Project Objectives

The  Smart  Greenhouse  is  prototype  implementation  of  a  remotely  controlled  and  monitored greenhouse.  Using  an  Internet  of  things  (IoT) -based  communication  and  control  technology  the  smart greenhouse enables an automatic control of the plants growing environment andenables remote control and monitoring of the plants and the environment.

This project utilizes Eleven sensors to read in the environment parameters and monitorthe power consumption of the system. For the environment parameters, light condition, inside and outside temperature and humidity,soilmoisture and pH level. The sensors are used to control Six actuators. Growing LED lights, heater, water pump, two solenoids, and a ventilation Fan. In the automatic mode the microcontroller will control the status of each actuator based on the sensors.

The  greenhouse  is  connected  to  a  remoted  cloud  using  a  wireless  communication  system.  This system is used to stream data for the user to store and view using a Android application.
In summary, the requirements were to create suitable greenhouse environment,controlandmonitor the environment, communication system to store data for the user to view.

Project Implementation Method

Several stages were definedto meet the requirements. Designing the Structure to host the environment, designing four control sub-system, integrating a monitoring system, establishing communication via IoT, and developing android interface.

In order to contain the environment, a design of a Fully insulated 4-season Greenhouse was selected for this prototype purpose,rescaled to 51”x 48” x 26” inches.

As one of the requirements, the structure should be built to meet the indoor and outdoor conditions. The structure environment specifications were set to be as following: Temperature range is = -15 to + 20 degrees Celsius The humidity should be above 75 at all times.
 

Benefits of the Project

Building a remotely monitored and controlled Greenhouse which enable users to grow crop while keeping the user inform. Allowing the users to take control of the Greenhouse remotely, manually theusers are always face with problem of when is the best time to grow crop and what is the best condition for certain crops.  The  goal  is  to  implement  a  system  that  will  allows  the  users  to  remotely  control  all  condition necessary for crop grow.The aim was built a working prototype to monitor and control this problem. Wecall it a Smart Greenhouse because it will operate automatic  while  control all this  condition. This  system can be  accessed remotely using a web server on any internet connected device

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The  communication  system consistsof a  Wi-Fi  module  that  is  connected  wirelessly  to  a  gateway  that  is connected  to  a  cloud  server (Firebase).  The  main  purpose  of  the  communication  system  is  to  transmit  all  the  data captured by the monitoring system to an accessible server or cloud that the user can access.
The main purpose of the web interface is to do the following functions: 1 .Setup the system time 2 .Customize environment 3 .View data remotely 4 .Change operation mode 5 User Notification

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Agriculture

Other Industries

IT , Others , Telecommunication

Core Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

Other Technologies

Cloud Infrastructure

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Climate Action, Life on Land

Required Resources

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