Ubiquitous greenhouse monitoring system

Abstract

A greenhouse is a structure generally made of glass, designed to provide protection and controlled environment to raise plants indoors. In order to achieve high quality and quantity of produce, proper management and data collection of the greenhouse environment is required. Manual practice of plant monitoring is laborious and time consuming. The proposed greenhouse system is an application which demonstrates the concept of Internet of Things and involves ubiquitous monitoring and controlling of environmental parameters within the greenhouse, which directly or indirectly control the plant growth and so their production. The system thus designed, mainly aims to remotely monitor and control the greenhouse using temperature sensor, light sensor, soil moisture, water level sensor and actuators through a customized webpage. Moreover, real-time representation of the sensed data is graphically plotted as well as stored for improved monitoring and further analysis, illustrating the concept of cloud instrumentation.