Development of Growing House Control System using Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Advancement of technology has led to the improvement of agricultural practices, which results in the increase of agricultural production and aids in solving the global food shortage. In this study, the intensive cultivation of food will be automated by designing a microcontroller based wireless sensor network (WSN) system, which will facilitate the constant conditioning inside the growing houses, especially during the fruiting stage. The system consists of two stations: sensors and actuators station and remote monitoring station. The sensors and actuators are placed in a structured model and wireless sensor nodes are programmed to enable reading of data from the sensors. Temperature, humidity and substrate moisture are controlled according to the desired conditions The whole system is monitored and controlled through transmission of data recorded to the remote monitoring station using WSN.