Automatic aeroponic irrigation system based on Arduino’s platform

Montoya, A. P.; Obando, Felipe A.; Morales, Juan; Vargas, Guillermo Andrés González

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/850/1/012003

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“…The various subsystems manage one or more plants growing atriums include nutrient atomization on hanged roots, maintenance, control of nutrient solution level, the addition of various nutrients, and control of the light quantity and cycle. A study by Montoya et al [46] designed a wireless sensor system to monitor the aeroponic system. The system protocol was based on the Arduino development board.…”

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“…However, the basic principle of the aeroponic system is to grow the plant by suspending in the closed, semiclosed, or dark environment in the air with artificial provided support. In the system, the plant stems, leaves, and any fruit grow in a vegetative zone above the suspension medium, and roots dangle below the suspension medium in an area commonly referred as a root zone [46]. Generally, closed cell foam is compressed around the lower stem and inserted into an opening in the aeroponic growth chamber, which decreases labour and expense.…”

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Monitoring and Control Systems in Agriculture Using Intelligent Sensor Techniques: A Review of the Aeroponic System

et al. 2018

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In recent years, intelligent sensor techniques have achieved significant attention in agriculture. It is applied in agriculture to plan the several activities and missions properly by utilising limited resources with minor human interference. Currently, plant cultivation using new agriculture methods is very popular among the growers. However, the aeroponics is one of the methods of modern agriculture, which is commonly practiced around the world. In the system, plant cultivates under complete control conditions in the growth chamber by providing a small mist of the nutrient solution in replacement of the soil. The nutrient mist is ejected through atomization nozzles on a periodical basis. During the plant cultivation, several steps including temperature, humidity, light intensity, water nutrient solution level, pH and EC value, CO2concentration, atomization time, and atomization interval time require proper attention for flourishing plant growth. Therefore, the object of this review study was to provide significant knowledge about early fault detection and diagnosis in aeroponics using intelligent techniques (wireless sensors). So, the farmer could monitor several paraments without using laboratory instruments, and the farmer could control the entire system remotely. Moreover, the technique also provides a wide range of information which could be essential for plant researchers and provides a greater understanding of how the key parameters of aeroponics correlate with plant growth in the system. It offers full control of the system, not by constant manual attention from the operator but to a large extent by wireless sensors. Furthermore, the adoption of the intelligent techniques in the aeroponic system could reduce the concept of the usefulness of the system due to complicated manually monitoring and controlling process.

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Monitoring and Control Systems in Agriculture Using Intelligent Sensor Techniques: A Review of the Aeroponic System

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“…Newer approaches use Cyber-Physical System (CPS) elements for automating growth processes. [7] designed an automatic aeroponic irrigation system that monitors and automatically waters a greenhouse using an Arduino 1 microcontroller. They arranged a master-slave connection between two Arduino via WiFi, the slave gathering sensor data and automating pump activity and the master storing it in a database, and presenting it on a webpage.…”

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Towards a secure and self-adapting smart indoor farming framework

Gnauer

Pichler

Tauber

et al. 2019

Elektrotech. Inftech.

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Facing the increase in world population and the stagnation in available arable land there is a high demand for optimizing the food production. Considering the worldwide and ongoing reduction of the agricultural labor force novel approaches for food production are required. Vertical farming may be such a solution where plants are being produced indoors in racks, cared by robotic appliances which will be operated by specialized software. Given the multitude of parameters which determine the ideal condition, a lot of data needs to be acquired. As this data is used to adapt the entire Cyber-Physical System to a changing environment the data has to be secure and adaptations have to consider safety aspects as well. Such systems must hence be secure, safe, scalable and self-adaptable to a high degree. We present an important element for such solutions, a cloud, IoT and robotic based smart farming framework.

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“…However, both systems neither monitor all the necessary parameters nor can control them automatically. Montoya et al (2017) [ 19 ] built an automated aeroponic system that is based on Arduino platform to measure the important system parameters such as temperature, humidity, and potential of hydrogen (pH) levels. However, the system is highly expensive in comparison with the other hydroponic systems.…”

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Design, Construction and Testing of IoT Based Automated Indoor Vertical Hydroponics Farming Test-Bed in Qatar

Chowdhury

Khandakar

Ahmed

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Growing plants in the gulf region can be challenging as it is mostly desert, and the climate is dry. A few species of plants have the capability to grow in such a climate. However, those plants are not suitable as a food source. The aim of this work is to design and construct an indoor automatic vertical hydroponic system that does not depend on the outside climate. The designed system is capable to grow common type of crops that can be used as a food source inside homes without the need of large space. The design of the system was made after studying different types of vertical hydroponic systems in terms of price, power consumption and suitability to be built as an indoor automated system. A microcontroller was working as a brain of the system, which communicates with different types of sensors to control all the system parameters and to minimize the human intervention. An open internet of things (IoT) platform was used to store and display the system parameters and graphical interface for remote access. The designed system is capable of maintaining healthy growing parameters for the plants with minimal input from the user. The functionality of the overall system was confirmed by evaluating the response from individual system components and monitoring them in the IoT platform. The system was consuming 120.59 and 230.59 kWh respectively without and with air conditioning control during peak summer, which is equivalent to the system running cost of 13.26 and 25.36 Qatari Riyal (QAR) respectively. This system was circulating around 104 k gallons of nutrient solution monthly however, only 8–10 L water was consumed by the system. This system offers real-time notifications to alert the hydroponic system user when the conditions are not favorable. So, the user can monitor several parameters without using laboratory instruments, which will allow to control the entire system remotely. Moreover, the system also provides a wide range of information, which could be essential for plant researchers and provides a greater understanding of how the key parameters of hydroponic system correlate with plant growth. The proposed platform can be used both for quantitatively optimizing the setup of the indoor farming and for automating some of the most labor-intensive maintenance activities. Moreover, such a monitoring system can also potentially be used for high-level decision making, once enough data will be collected. This work presents significant opportunities for the people who live in the gulf region to produce food as per their requirements.

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Automatic aeroponic irrigation system based on Arduino’s platform

Cited by 27 publications

References 7 publications

Monitoring and Control Systems in Agriculture Using Intelligent Sensor Techniques: A Review of the Aeroponic System

Monitoring and Control Systems in Agriculture Using Intelligent Sensor Techniques: A Review of the Aeroponic System

Towards a secure and self-adapting smart indoor farming framework

Design, Construction and Testing of IoT Based Automated Indoor Vertical Hydroponics Farming Test-Bed in Qatar

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