Intelligent Green House

Traditional farming methods have been proved to be ineffective at providing sufficient crops. It adds in issues like soil degradation, food transportation to areas where it can't be farmed locally, and an increase in the cost of food. It is not only inaccessible to the general population, but it als

Project Title

Intelligent Green House

Project Area of Specialization

Internet of Things

Project Summary

Traditional farming methods have been proved to be ineffective at providing sufficient crops. It adds in issues like soil degradation, food transportation to areas where it can't be farmed locally, and an increase in the cost of food. It is not only inaccessible to the general population, but it also poses a threat to the ecosystem due to global urbanization, deforestation, lack of space, and water shortages.

Most plants do not grow properly and die because they are lacking in managing the basic parameters which are required for plants like soil moisture, temperature, humidity, and light. If these required parameters are provided to the plants, then any plant can grow in any region of the world.

For this, we are going to build a prototype to provide the solution to up-mentioned problems. The core and integral feature of the greenhouse monitoring system is the data acquisition, data transmission, remote monitoring, and automation of the greenhouse.

The Intelligent Green House (IGH) contains a sensors network (SN) based node that is active to monitor climatic parameters such as temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and light intensity in a greenhouse setting. These Sensor nodes are physically installed in a greenhouse environment to gather climatic parameter data, which is then transported to the server. ES-based controllers and actuators are integrated with IoT analytics. Various technologies, such as lights, water sprinklers/exhaust fans, and fans, are used to control the greenhouse atmosphere.

The data collection interface gathers information about greenhouse environment parameters and equipment status at a predetermined time interval and stores it in the predefined greenhouse environment database and equipment status database. The data collection and storing procedure continues in the centralized monitoring and management platform operating without a lot of human-computer interaction.

We believe that the implementation of the proposed technique will significantly improve a farming system's sustainability, productivity, and profitability. This will be the first wireless deployment of IoT analytics for a smart greenhouse employing controllers and actuators.

Project Objectives

The rapid change in climate, population boom, and shrinking arable lands necessitate new techniques to assure long-term agricultural and food security. Greenhouse agriculture is seen as a potential and long-term solution to the future food issue, as it allows farmers to regulate their local environment and grow crops all year long, even in harsh outdoor conditions. However, greenhouse farms face numerous operational and management issues. The evolving Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, which include smart sensors, devices, network topologies, big data analytics, and intelligent decision-making, are thought to be the answer to the key challenges facing greenhouse farming, such as greenhouse local climate control, crop growth monitoring, crop harvesting, and so on.

Project Implementation Method

As this project is hardware-based, so there will be a live server on which the data will be transformed. A cross-platform mobile application and a website to monitor all the parameters.

By providing a complete perception, reliable transmission, and intelligent processing of greenhouse environmental data, the greenhouse intelligent control system may be able to achieve the aims of greenhouse automation, intelligence, network, and scientific production. The majority of the system is made up of sensors, field controllers, centralized control computers, and actuators. Sensors and actuators are connected to field controllers in a control system. Each greenhouse is equipped with a control system. The centralized control computer of the centralized control system produces a dispersed control structure, and each field control system is connected to the local area network through ethernet.

Various types of sensors are used to detect environmental characteristics such as air temperature, humidity, light intensity, and soil humidity both inside and outside the greenhouse.

The field controller receives the information obtained by the sensor after preliminary processing and delivers it to the centralized control computer for further processing. A local area network (LAN), a mobile communication network, and the Internet make up the transport layer. It takes data from the application layer and sends commands to a remote user.

The data transmission network is made up of the greenhouse field LAN. There are multiple greenhouses in the planting base, and the distance between the field controller and the centralized control computer is significant.

The application layer obtains accurate and reliable environmental information by combining, processing, and merging all forms of information collected in the greenhouse, which provides decision-making and automation. Login management, data display, remote control, and system administration are the four modules that make up the greenhouse monitoring system. The environmental parameters, such as air temperature and humidity, soil temperature and humidity, light intensity, carbon dioxide concentration, and so on, can be displayed in two ways. The core and integral feature of the greenhouse monitoring system is remote control of greenhouse equipment. The data collection interface gathers information about greenhouses and stores it in the predefined greenhouse environment database. The data collection and storing procedure continues in the centralized monitoring and management platform operating without a lot of human-computer interaction.

Benefits of the Project

As this is a new farming technique because IoT technology is being used alongside traditional farming to bring newness and betterment to the agriculture field. It will provide benefits not only to farmers but also to laymen or a person who is interested in gardening and unable to grow plants because of the unavailability of a proper environment that is required to plant. The advantages of this intelligent agricultural monitoring system are

• Continuous mobile greenhouse monitoring by sitting anywhere.
• Increased crop output and productivity.
• Less human interaction/dependency.
• Farmers will be facilitated by this.
• Innovation in agriculture.
• Productivity of the offseason crops

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

As a final product, the greenhouse is fully capable of handling plants that require specific temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and light for their growth. Due to the changing environment in Pakistan, plants are not grown well so the greenhouse provides the facility to control the environment for the plants. For this, we build a solution and try to provide an ideal environment for the growth of the ornamental plants by placing the plants in the house. Instructions are given to the house by a web application, then the microcontroller proceeds according to those instructions. For the monitoring of the house, the mobile application to measure the status of the plants' image processing is used.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

IT

Other Industries

Agriculture

Core Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

Other Technologies

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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