Design and Implementation of Aeroponic Farming

The Aeroponic farming is a kind of farming in which plants are grown without the need of soil and the method consumes only 1 of the total amount of water required in normal growing conditions. This system also includes artificial lightning thus reducing the dependence of Plant Growth on weather cond

Project Title

Design and Implementation of Aeroponic Farming

Project Area of Specialization

Internet of Things

Project Summary

The Aeroponic farming is a kind of farming in which plants are grown without the need of soil and the method consumes only 1 of the total amount of water required in normal growing conditions. This system also includes artificial lightning thus reducing the dependence of Plant Growth on weather conditions. This system operates in an indoor environmental condition thus keeping the plants safe from Harsh Climate. The yield of the crops increases than the present yield of the crops due to Feed back control system. The aeroponic farming has certain benefits when compared with conventional farming which are the optimum access of air by the plant for a successful plant growth,pathogen or disease-free plants and minimal contact between a plant and support structure allows the root systems to be free of constraints surrounding the stem and root systems. Research at present is being done to optimize the method of aeroponic farming in terms of cost and working. The objective of this project is to develop, make the best or most effective use of and to develop a software of an inexpensive aeroponic farming mechanism.//
The project is to develop an aeroponic farming mechanism which is not only capable of growing plants without the need of soil but also to grow plants effectively to provide right nutrient at right time thus saving the cost of many farmers due to the withering of crops .The mechanism makes an effective use of water for plants which will address the water shortage needs of the country .Calculations and analysis are performed in order to develop an optimum design of Engineering. An algorithm of a system to monitor plants on timely basis is developed in Process. The system is successfully implemented. The plants growth, however, is in process at this stage of time and will be completed in due course

Project Objectives

Objectives of the Project
 

•  Design a scaled model of an aeroponic farm.    
•    Fabrication of Shed for the farm.
•   Control of the aeroponic farm
   

Project Implementation Method

The project implementation starts from literature review where all the research work in this field will be looked at.

Then after that the project will enter the CAD designing phase where a 3D CAD Model of the Aeroponic shed will be developed.

The third phase is the Embedded system simulation phase where the Embedded system simulations are performed on Proteus.

Then the project implementation will move on to the Fabrication of Hardware phase where all the necessary Hardware related to Aeroponic farming will be fabricated.

Then we will move onto the sensor and module integration phase where all the sensors and modules will be tested one by one and integrated inro the system.

The second last phase of project implementation would be to develop a code of the system of Aeroponics on Arduino.

The Final phase would be to carry out certain tests inorder to ensure that the project is in working order. 

Benefits of the Project

•It will use less water as compared to conventional farming thus it will save water from being wasted.

•It will also provide an alternative option for the farmers to grow their plants.

•The Crops can be produced throughout the whole year thus ending the country’s dependence on a seasonal crop.

•Provision of optimum supply of nutrients and Water needed by a particular plant can ensure their growth  without the soil.

Plant are grown in controlled growing conditions .

The farmers can monitor the growth  of  the plants  from their home through IOT.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The final deliverable would be the Aeroponic Shed which contains the following Equipment:

• Diaphragm Pump with Nozzle tube mist
• SHT 12 C Temperature and Humidity Sensor (Water proof)
• Analog Conductivity Sensor
• PH Sensor
• Stainless Steel Sheets
• Steel Structure

Design feature
Our experimental setup consist of two chambers, roots chamber and plants chamber.It
has 4 rows of plants with 4 plants in each row. It is necessary that each row of plants
should be provided with equal supply of nutrient rich solution .To achieve this target we
are using misting nozzle with small orifice diameter to eject fine mist of 30-50 microns.
We have deployed 16 nozzles ,each nozzle under each plant, to supply equal amount of
nutrient rich solution to each plant .

Misting System
The basic system that came under the category of High Pressure Aeroponics had to
fulfill two conditions :one the pressure of the misting pump should be above 100 psi
and the droplet size produced by nozzles should lie between the range of 5um to 50
um as recommended by NASA.This system fulfills these two conditions one its pump
pressure is 150 psi and it’s nozzle produces droplet size of about 30um.

Technical Details of the Misting system
• Voltage :DC 24V /4A
• Max pressure: 150psi/ 1.0 Mpa
• Max flow: 5.3 L/Min
• LxWxH=210x102x105mm
• nozzle produces 30 micrometer droplets

Nutrients
All plants need three primary macro-nutrients to survive i.e. NPK (nitrogen (N), Phosphorus
(P) and potassium(K)).additionally plants also required micro-nutrients to flourish.
Different nutrients contributes in different stages of plants growth. We are using
100% water soluble chemicals to prevent clog in misting nozzles. Water soluble fertilizer
which we are using contains equal ratio of NPK as well as Boron (B), copper (Cu),
iron(Fe), manganese (Mn), molybdenum(Mo),zinc(Zn).// Electric conductivity of our
solution will be measured using EC meter. Electric conductivity is the measure of salts
in solution.

Sensors
We have integrated all sensors with our hardware to check the parameters like temperature,
humidity,light ,PH and EC of nutrients.Outputs of all the sensors are displayed on
TFT touch screen.

 

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Type of Industry

Agriculture

Technologies

Internet of Things (IoT), Others

Sustainable Development Goals

Zero Hunger, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Climate Action

Required Resources

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