Greenhouse Monitoring and Controlling using Cloud-Based Android Application

Abstract

Wireless sensor network (WSN) technology is the amalgamation of numerous sensors exploited for monitoring and controlling the physical climate conditions. The integration of WSN technology in greenhouse farming has offered a new direction towards the production of crops. Greenhouse presents a protected environment for the plants/crops and facilitates the farmers in boosting their production. The paper presents a real-time greenhouse monitoring and controlling system. Humidity-Temperature sensor (DHT11), Soil Moisture sensor and Light sensor (LDR) are explored to measure the climate parameters accurately. To collect the real-time monitoring data from these sensors and transmit the data to the Firebase Cloud, the Wi-Fi module ESP8266 is attached to Arduino UNO. Further, an android application is developed for monitoring and controlling climate parameters via smart devices. The proposed model is efficient in terms of services and cost. The proposed automatic greenhouse monitoring and control system can facilitate the farmers in monitoring and controlling the climate conditions automatically as well as manually if the need arises. The developed application is user-friendly and can be efficiently utilized by farmers.