IoT based Soil Moisture and Sun Light Monitoring for Smart Planting

Jonathan Jonathan,D Widjaja

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/1115/1/012056

Jonathan Jonathan, D Widjaja

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/1115/1/012056

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Abstract

Plant enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and farmers usually have more than one plant that needs to be looked after every day. Lack of water and unproportioned sun light can be a serious problem if they have to leave the plant for a long period of time. An Internet of Things (IoT) based automatic remote plant sprinkler with sun light cover was designed to solve this problem. This system eases the users for monitoring the condition of plants without having to be in the field. The system model uses an ESP32 microcontroller, Light Dependant Resistor (LDR), relay, and L298N DC motor driver. In dry soil conditions, the water pump and sprinkler will turn on and water the soil. When the soil conditions are moist or wet the pump and sprinkler will not turn on. When there is intense sun light, the DC motor will pull the curtains to cover the plant. All the data can be monitored remotely via Wi-Fi connection. The results of this work shows that the system works well with 100% monitoring success rate.

Highlights

Plant enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and farmers must have more than one plant that needs to be cared every day
Entrepreneurs, and farmers usually have more than one plant that needs to be looked after every day
The other factor to provide a good environment for plant to grow is the sun light intensity [2]

Summary

Introduction

Entrepreneurs, and farmers must have more than one plant that needs to be cared every day. Sufficient water and adequate sun light are important factors in carrying out photosynthetic activities. If this is not well considered, the plants will quickly wither and die. Gunawan (2018) has designed automatic sprinkler using soil moisture sensor [8]. This system will automatically water the plant whenever the plant need watering based on the soil condition. Based on the aforementioned problems, the development of automatic sprinkler combined with sun light plant cover was proposed in this work. Soil condition and sun light intensity will be sensed to drive the system whether it will water and cover the plant or not.

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Result and Discussion

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