Design and Implementation of a Sustainable IOT Enabled Greenhouse Prototype

Abstract

Food production by conventional means is not sufficient to cater for the ever growing world population. A solution is to incorporate greenhouses into the farming system more firmly. Automating these greenhouses makes the process more efficient and reliable. This project automates greenhouse farming by regulating climatic conditions in the greenhouse according to the plant specified from the database. The plants are kept at optimum temperature, humidity, light and soil moisture levels with little or no input from the user. Regular updates can be viewed from an android application and controllers can be directly activated over the internet with the click of a button. This is done with the aid of an android application and online databases such as Thingspeak. The result of this project is an easier and more efficient means of managing plant growth and a means of enhancing food production. With the aid of the project, anyone can access high yield of farming and therefore be self-sustainable in the aspect of food production.