Smart App for Gardening Monitoring System using IoT Technology

Abstract

Gardening is one of the hobbies or recreation activities suitable for various age layers. Unfortunately, in this era, many gardeners are still using a manual system to water and monitor their plants. There are several challenges for gardeners to manage and monitor the plant growth, such as they need to control the moisture of the soil, observe the air humidity and temperature, and others. This project offers a solution where it integrates between the Internet of Things (IoT) system and Android apps to monitor the plant's growth with a real-time data monitoring and also provides the system control. IoT is a shared network of objects which interact with each other. In this project, the sensors are used to sense the moisture of soil, observe the air humidity and temperature, discover the light intensity and measure the soil temperature. The data obtained from the sensors are sent to a cloud using wireless transmission. Besides, this system allows gardeners to control the irrigation system where they can water their plants using mobile apps. The sensor updates the data in every one hour. Other than that, this system also provides gardeners to control the lamp by using a particular light-emitting diode or UV LED, as a source of light if there had unstable weather. The light needs to be switched on if the soil becomes too wet. Also, gardeners can control the air ventilation system to bring in oxygen into the greenhouse and remove carbon dioxide.  To conclude, although this project faces some challenges, IoT technology has been successfully implemented in modern agriculture and compatible with indoor gardening.