IoT Smart Greenhouse
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Date
2021
Authors
Shtaiwi, Ansam
Hamadneh, Donya
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Palestine is famous for agriculture, but it is limited to seasonal agriculture. It is
clear that modern farming methods and smart greenhouses are widespread in the
countries of the world, but they are not in Palestine yet, and therefore this project
is intended for the farmers of Palestine.
The smart greenhouse greatly helps farmers, as it saves them time and effort, and
does not require labor, which reduces human effort. It also allows the cultivation
of non-seasonal plants and provides all the conditions that the plant needs from
soil moisture, temperature, air humidity and appropriate lighting intensity for each
crop. The smart greenhouse saves water consumption and allows the farmer to
supervise it from a distance. The advantage of the smart greenhouse is that it is
not limited to farmers as it makes it easier for users to control crops even without
high experience in farming.
This project aims to facilitate farming for farmers so that they can choose the crop
they want at any season they want, and determine the appropriate conditions for
the crop, which will be provided automatically without wasting the farmer's fatigue
or time and a lot of labor, and they can monitor the greenhouse condition directly
or in any time. This project will help in the growth of the economy in Palestine in
the agricultural field too.
The smart greenhouse is designed to consist of two parts, the first part is the
electrical circuits, where a complete and correct electrical circuit is connected to
read the sensor values (soil moisture, air humidity, temperature, lighting intensity,
water height level in the tank), and then based on the appropriate values And
specified for temperature, humidity, lighting, and sensor values. Water pumps,
fans, heating, lighting and ventilation devices are controlled to reach the
appropriate conditions for a particular plant. The other part is a website that helps
to control the greenhouse remotely, either manually or automatically. The Internet
of things was used to connect the parts of the project completely.
This project was presented before at the university, but our project will be
distinguished from its predecessor by providing a ventilation system and warning
when the water in the tank ends, as well as the ability to see the greenhouse
information at an earlier time, and also provides fertilizers on a regular basis.
The world lives in the age of speed, as the massive and rapid development has
made the world a small village. All things that were previously impossible are now
possible and even become a very natural thing in our lives. The development
included smart devices in a large and recently extended to become a complete
smart system such as a smart greenhouse. It is said about smart things when they
can face problems without outside help and without needing anyone. A smart
greenhouse is a greenhouse that contains sensors for temperature, soil moisture,
air humidity, light intensity, and the percentage of water in the tank. Through the
values of the sensors, commands are given to the cooling, heating, lighting and
ventilation devices, and their mode of operation is determined so as to provide the
specific and required conditions, all using the Internet of Things.
This project is designed to benefit the Palestinian people in particular from other
peoples due to the lack of similar projects. The goal is to help farmers, improve
agricultural crops and save workers a lot of time and effort. It is a system that
works automatically and manually controlling the plastic house through the
website we designed so that the goal Including improving agricultural productivity
by maintaining the appropriate atmosphere for each crop inside this plastic house.
• In the future, the project can be developed better. It provides a digital image
system based on artificial intelligence, displaying plants and crops, knowing the
times of ripening and picking the fruits.
• A special fertilization system can also be made, which can automatically know
the percentage of fertilizer for each crop inside the fertilizer tank by measuring
weight and knowing the volume of water.
• We also hope that there will be a system to predict and treat diseases before the
crop is damaged.
We hope that the model will be implemented on the ground in Palestine.