Automated Polyhouse for Optimum Growth of Plants

Abstract

India is a vast area and it has vast agricultural methods. But then also at present India does not have advanced and good agricultural management and current methods are not sufficient to provide everything to the population which is problematic. This can be proved as a major issue and sooner or later we have to find out a solution. The solution is to practice a protective farming which is mostly polyhouse farming. It is similar to the greenhouse farming simply covered with polythene sheet is known as polyhouse. The main objective presented in this paper is controlling and monitoring of environmental parameters and continuously maintaining the favorable atmosphere for a crop. It is expandable to the internet based technology or GSM(Global System for Mobile) communications. The concept of polyhouse includes data acquisition of thermal parameters through sensor networks and incudes data storage, post processing and transmission of data to users mobile. Further controlling is done in accordance with the received parameters for example toggle on/off, control of pumps and other accessories, ventilators, air flow rate, sunlight management etc