Development of Intelligent System for Alert Notification in Indoor Planting

Abstract

The past decade has seen significant advancement in the field of agriculture industry. Various smart appliances such as cellular phones, moisture sensors, humidity sensor and smart irrigation are set to realize the concept of a new smart farming with the help of latest technology. In Malaysia, farmers experience crop damage and decrease in plant quantity and quality because they unable to monitor the crop all day. The development of a monitoring system that can helps farmer grow crops is enticing demand for busy individuals with physical limitations. Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) technology, which has emerged in the late 1970s, is an ideal solution for this problem. In this paper, a development of intelligent system for alert notification in indoor planting is presented. This paper describes an application of GSM technology for monitoring light system in indoor planting with the use of hardware component like Arduino board, GSM SIM900A, LDR and LED strip. The major role of this system is to enable farmers to get notified when the light system for their plants is down through GSM SIM900A. Each time the light system is light on and light off, the farmers will receive an SMS to notify them. System functional testing was carried to evaluate the performance of implementing GSM SIM900A whether the prototype is free from error or there are a few errors occurs. The results shown that, the system is well functioning for alert notification in indoor planting monitoring. In conclusion, the development of intelligent systems for alert notification in indoor planting was developed using Arduino and GSM SIM900A to able farmers notified about their indoor planting when to be monitored.