Automatic Plant Health Monitoring Device based on NDVI Analysis using Raspberry Pi for Water Apple Plant

Abstract

: Indonesia is a tropical country with abundant agricultural products. Therefore, the increase of efficiency and productivity of these crops is needed. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index is an index used to monitor plant health. To find out the NDVI value, a special camera is used to capture Near Infrared (NIR) light spectrum. This special camera is usually used by the professional plantation industry and is very expensive. In this study, we used a raspberry pi and a low cost Pi Noir camera to create a system that can predict the NDVI value of plants. The plant used as testing object is a Water Apple Plant ( Syzygium aqueum ). The result was that the system was able to identify the health of plant based on their NDVI value.