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ABSTRACT
Intraditional farming, farmer hastovisitthefarming land regularly to measure the various environmentalparameters such as temperature, humidity, light intensity andsoil moisture to cultivate the right crops at right time in rightsoil. Even though this traditional farming system have beenusedforyears,thesystemishecticandfailtoprovehighproductivity rate as farmer usually unable to measure all theparameter accurately [1]. In contrast, greenhouse farming is asystemwherefarmercultivatecropsinecosystemenvironmentswhereallenvironmentalparametersareadjusted based on crops types. Automation in greenhouse is amethodwherefarmerisabletomonitorandcontrolthegreenhouse environment automatically from anywhere in theworldanytime[3].Theproposed is onautomated greenhouse monitoring and controlling system thatincorporatevarioussensorssuchastemperatureand humidity sensor to collectpossible environmental parameters of greenhouse as well asintegrate Arduino Uno R3 (to store and process data), GSMmodule (to send the measured value of the various parametersto the user cell phone via SMS to ensure efficient growth ofplants), solar power system with rechargeable battery (to makesurecontinuouspowersupplytothegreenhousesystem).Moreover, Internet of Things (IoT) is used to store data to adatabase and process the collected data and finally send theinformation to the android apps which has been developed formonitoringandcontrollingofgreenhousebytheuser.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
APPROVAL PAGE
DEDICATION
ACKNOWELDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT
- PROBLEM STATEMENT
- AIM AND OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT
- SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
- LIMITATION OF THE PROJECT
- METHODOLOGY
- PROJECT ORGANISATION
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY
2.3 ENVIRONMENTALFACTORS FOR GREENHOUSE
2.3 REVIEWOFLITERATURES
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 METHODOLOGY
3.1 SYSTEMARCHITECTURE
3.2 HARDWAREREQUIREMENT
3.3 SYSTEM CIRCUIT
3.4 CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION
3.5 SYSTEMIMPLEMENTATION
3.6 POWER SUPPLY UNIT
3.7 PROGRAM CODE
CHAPTER FOUR
RESULT ANALYSIS
4.0 RESULT AND DISCUSSION
CHAPTER FIVE
- CONCLUSIONS
5.2 REFERENCES
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Inthistimeandday,everythingcanbemonitoredandcontrolledautomatically.Unfortunately,inanimportantsectorlikeagriculture,themanualprocessisstillveryactive,meaningtheautomaticmonitoringandcontrolofagreenhousesystemhasn’tcompletelyscaledthroughjustyet,especiallywhenitcomestosmallscalefarming.
The reason whereby the automation of a greenhouse systemhasn’tbeenputtoafull-fledgedusemaybeinviewofseveralreasons, such as the absence of technical know-how, highcostandthe requirement ofhigh maintenance.
Agriculturehasstoodoutamongstthemostimportantoccupations of individuals since the early advancement ofhumans and sadly, even to date, manual interventions infarming are inescapable. When it comes to a greenhousemonitor and control system, it is a very important part ofagricultureasitcanbeusedtogrowplantsunderacontrolledclimatic condition for ideal plant produce [1], it is also to agreatdegreeimportantinthesensethatitshieldsplantsfromweatherextremesbyhavingacontrolledclimaticenvironment, it broadens the developing season and alsoempowers you to sow plants earlier and harvest plants later[2].
The monitoring and control of environmental temperature and soil moisture in a Greenhouse, is anew alternative to control some variables inside the greenhouse. The objective of the control is tomaintain a certain value within a preset interval or value (set point) regardless of whether anexternalinfluence disruptstheprocess.
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT
Intraditionalfarming,farmerhastovisitthefarming land regularly to measure the various environmentalparameters such as temperature, humidity, light intensity andsoil moisture to cultivate the right crops at right time in rightsoil. Even though this traditional farming system have beenusedforyears,thesystemishecticandfailtoprovehighproductivity rate as farmer usually unable to measure all theparameter accurately [1]. Greenhousemonitoring and controlling system, it is a very important part ofagricultureasitcanbeusedtogrowplantsunderacontrolledclimatic condition for ideal plant produce. Controlling greenhouse manually or traditionally takes much time and involves much labour. This project was carried out to automatically monitor a greenhouse which will involve the system beingclosely controlled and monitored in a set climatic conditionwhichisneeded for optimumfarm/plantproduce.
1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The main aim of this work is to create an effectivegreenhouse environment which will drastically reduce thecostoflabourandalsohelpsmallscalefarmerscultivatecropsallyear round. The objectives are:
- To monitor greenhouse wirelessly
- To increase agriculture productivity
- To reduce human labour.
1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The scope of this work is on building an automatic monitor and control system for a greenhouse. Greenhouse farming is asystemwherefarmercultivatecropsinecosystemenvironmentswhereallenvironmentalparametersareadjusted based on crops types. Automation in greenhouse is amethodwherefarmerisabletomonitorandcontrolthegreenhouse environment automatically from anywhere in theworldanytime[3].Inthispaper,authorsproposedanautomated greenhouse monitoring and controlling system thatincorporatevarioussensorssuchastemperaturesensor andhumidity sensor to collectpossible environmental parameters of greenhouse as well asintegrate Arduino Uno. It is accomplished by the data communications between Arduino, DHT11 Sensor Module, ESP8266 WIFI module and LCD. Celsius scale thermometer and percentage scale humidity meter displays the ambient temperature and humidity through a LCD display.
1.5 LIMITATION OF STUDY
As we all know that no human effort to achieve a set of goals goes without difficulties, certain constraints were encountered in the course of carrying out this project and they are as follows:-
- Difficulty in information collection: I found it too difficult in laying hands of useful information regarding this work and this course me to visit different libraries and internet for solution.
- Financial Constraint: Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet).
- Network challenge: this device operates with gsm network. Whenever there is a network challenge this device becomes affected.
1.6 RESEARCHMETHODOLOGY
In the course of carrying this study, numerous sources were used which most of them are by visiting libraries, consulting journal and news papers and online research which Google was the major source that was used.
1.7 PROJECT ORGANISATION
The work is organized as follows: chapter one discuses the introductory part of the work, chapter two presents the literature review of the study, chapter three describes the methods applied, chapter four discusses the results of the work, chapter five summarizes the research outcomes and the recommendations.
