Hydroponic Nutrient Solution for Optimized Greenhouse with IOT

Abstract

Looking at it in a large scale, Agriculture is always an integral part of our community. With an increasing trend of population growth, the food production also keeps increasing. With the focus currently changes to the trend of sustaining the environment, the possibility of growing plants anywhere with or without soil has gained great interest among the people in society. There are many negative impacts in the tradition and Conventional way of agriculture which has now been addressed by growing plants with the help of hydroponic methods instead. Water is used as the medium for growth in Hydroponic gardening systems instead of soil. It leads to achieve greater benefits like getting higher yields and efficient usage of water. It can also be designed to support production all through the year without a break. Without depending on the climatic conditions, setting up a self-sufficient hydroponic system allows the possibility of growing plants remotely, especially in areas where farming can be a very big challenge due to unseasonal climatic conditions. Also, it reduces the workload of people who look after plant maintenance. Earlier thesis papers related to this like a project called “Automated hydroponics greenhouse” in 2017 and “Automated Plant Holder for Compact Area” in 2018 was a source of inspiration for us to give a research on this project. In our research there are three goals. Primarily, it is required to find if it is possible to create an autonomous hydroponic system which is also relatively feasible with cost-efficient materials. Secondly, to verify whether plants can be accessed through remote mode and also to manage that system with less human interaction. Finally, how this kind of system would affect the efficiency of operating the system will be analyzed.