Designing an IoT system for monitoring and controlling temperature and humidity in mushroom cultivation fields

Abstract

In recent years, technology in agriculture has grown and some of them have used information technology based on Internet of Things (IoT). The general objective of this study is to combine cultivation on agriculture using IoT technology based on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). This study will focus on oyster mushrooms as cultivation objects because they have good selling values and require special conditions, namely a humid environment at a temperature range of 16-30°C. The system designed is remote monitoring using the internet and wireless communication. The monitoring system is designed using a microcontroller and sensors that will read the temperature and humidity of the oyster mushroom growing media. Then the parameters from the sensor will be sent to the ThingSpeak Cloud System. This system also allows to control the temperature of the oyster mushroom growing media when the environmental conditions are not as expected. Then the monitoring process will be monitored from web pages in graphical form which is a feature of ThingSpeak. From the results of testing the entire system, the system successfully sends temperature and humidity to the Cloud every 30 minutes. The system also managed to control temperature up to 25-29°C. From the experiments conducted it can also be concluded that the cultivation of oyster mushroom with temperature control will be more effective than the oyster mushroom field without temperature control.