Smart Plant Monitoring System Using BLYNK Application

Abstract

Plant monitoring is seen as one of the most important tasks in any farming or agriculture based environment. This paper automates plant monitoring and smart gardening using IoT in the NodeMCU system platform. The main purpose of this paper is to provide comfort to the farmer by reducing the manual work by improving the overall performance of the system without the user’s direct interaction. The important parameters for the quality and productivity of plant growth are soil and air temperature, humidity, sunlight and soil moisture. The plant health and growth information has to be provided to the user continuously by monitoring and recording these garden parameters. All the sensors used in this project are interfaced with the NodeMCU. And this information about the plant can be directly monitored and controlled by the farmer through their smart phone using IoT. This smart gardening system will provide convenience and comfort to the user by sensing and controlling the parameters of the plants without their physical presence. Any android supported device can be used to install the smart gardening application. The softwares used are Arduino IDE & Blynk IoT platform. Ardunio IDE is used for compling and uploading the programe to NodeMCU and Blynk IoT platform is used for displaying of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure & soil moisture and can be accessed from any distance. This will help the farmer to understand the relation between the plant growth and mentioned plant parameters.