IOT for smart farm: A case study of the Lingzhi mushroom farm at Maejo University

Abstract

This research aims to prototype a smart Lingzhi mushroom farm. This research applied the use of IOT with a sensor to measure and monitors the humidity in the Lingzhi mushroom farm. The humidity data processed through NETPIE was developed and provided by NECTEC as a free service for IOT. Humidity data was stored into a NET FEED (a sub service from NETPIE) and displayed on mobile devices and computers through NET FREEBOARD (another sub service of NETPIE). This research also controlled sprinkler and fog pumps automatically and the functional status (switching on and off for periods of time) pushes notifications through LINE API on the LINE Application. The equipment and tools used in this research were NodeMCU, humidity sensor, RTC (real time clock), relay module, sprinkler and fog pumps. C++ and Node.JS were used as programming. The services and protocol used were NETPIE (Network Platform for internet of everything) with subservices such as NETPIE FEED, NETPIE FREEBOARD, and NETPIE REST API. The results of the research showed that using IOT with the sensor enhanced the prototype of smart farming.