Greenhouse Automation System
Uday A. Waykole, Ghanshyam Agrawal · 2012
A Greenhouse is a building where plants are grown. Greenhouses are often used for growing flowers, vegetables, fruits, and tobacco plant. Basic factors affecting plant growth are sunlight, water content in soil, temperature, etc. These physical factors are hard to control manually inside a greenhouse and a need for automated design arises. Automatically controlling all the factors that affect plant growth is also a difficult task as it is expensive and some physical factors are inter-related, for example, temperature and humidity are related in a way when temperature raises humidity reduces therefore controlling both together is difficult. Because the temperature and humidity of greenhouse must be constantly monitored to ensure optimal conditions, a wireless sensor network can be used to gather the data from point to point. The data from the greenhouse will be measured by the sensor and the data that are collected will be sending to the receiver. The data that has been read will be displayed on the LCD screen. By using this system, the process of monitoring is easier and it is also cheaper for installation and maintenance process.