IoT-based Data Monitoring and Environment Controlling System for Oyster Mushroom Mini-farm

Despite the perception people may have regarding the agricultural process, the reality is that today’s agriculture industry is data centered, precise and smarter than ever. This is because the rapid emergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) based technologies in almost every industry in Malaysia. This project describes the development of a monitoring and controlling system for oyster mushroom mini-farm using IoT based application. The system is mainly consisting of a small Styrofoam box installed with an ESP8266 NodeMCU microcontroller that receives temperature and humidity data from a DHT11 sensor, and a thermoelectric cooler to control the temperature of the mini-farm. An IoT-based application using Blynk is developed to monitor the temperature and humidity, and also to control a mechanism that can change the temperature and humidity of cultivation environment. This paper also demonstrates the preliminary experimental results that show the functionality of the mini-farm to gather environment data and also controls the environment condition of the mini-farm.