IoT Based Automated Hydroponics Greenhouse Monitoring

Abstract

Hydroponics refers to the art of growing plants in water without soil (land). Nutrients for the plants are supplied to the roots in the form of solution that can be either in the form of static or flowing. Hydroponics can be cultivated both in green house and glass house environment. The limitation in green house environment is to maintain the temperature, pressure, humidity value at a particular level. In addition to that, monitoring on PH value and electrical conductivity in hydroponics is another challenge that has to be monitored and maintained. Manual monitoring is in practice which is a very trivial task else the plants may die out. This project, focuses on two tasks, the first one is to automate the greenhouse environment monitoring. The subsequent is automation of PH level, temperature, turbidity and electrical conductivity maintenance. IOT is used to transfer the retrieved data to the internet (mass storage) and mobile app is used to communicate the current status to the user through the use of internet to their mobile phones, so that monitoring & maintenance will be easier. This Hydroponics system requires less manual intervention, water and space than traditional agricultural systems.