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Smart Vertical Garden Statistics, Monitoring And Controlling Using IOT By Shriya Bhele

ABSTRACT:

Interconnection of number of devices through internet describes the Internet of things (IOT). Every object is connected with each other through unique identifier so that data can be transferred without human to human interaction. It allows establishing solutions for better management of natural resources. The smart objects embedded with sensors enables interaction with the physical and logical worlds according to the concept of IoT. This proposed system is based on IOT that uses real time input data. Real time sensed data handling and demonstration on the server is accomplished using web based graphical user interface. Wireless monitoring of vertical gardening system reduces human intervention and allows remote monitoring and controlling on phone. An automated watering method for efficient water supervision has been proposed. Soil Parameters like soil moisture, pH, Humidity are measured and the pressure sensor and the sensed values are displayed in LCD. The GSM module has been used to establish a communication link. In this gateway sensor is used to handle sensor information and helps to transmit data to user, Wireless through moisture, Humidity and Temperature sensors is programmed with microcontroller based gateway. The master node with Wi-Fi enabled so that it will receive data from all sensor nodes, store data on storage device and it will get displayed on smart phone and web portal on PC in tabular and graphical format.

INTRODUCTION:

 Presently, everybody leads a hectic and busy life. As the technology is advancing, the nature is ignored more and more. Half of the land of forests and wildlife is already used to benefit humans. All the natural resources are being used as if there is no tomorrow. Many projects are coming up with various ideas as to how to conserve nature. But the revolution can be brought with small steps and not overnight. Every house, every person is required to look after the nature. This is high time to balance the equation between humans and nature lest the end is disastrous. Today, we all live in concrete gardens. No interaction with the nature. In order to contribute to ecosystem, the least we can do is maintain a garden. The garden does require a lot of care and nourishment to stay green all the time. The garden requires water daily (except monsoon). Moreover, when the gardener (user) goes out on a vacation there is no means to water the garden. This constant ignorance towards the garden can ultimately lead to its death. And as said earlier, nobody has enough time to nourish garden manually. People can automate stuffs to keep their gardens alive. The gardens are ought to be in an open area and outside the house. This system proposes an idea to have a garden vertically. It will neither consume a lot of space in the house nor would it be too clumsy to maintain. The basic idea of vertical garden is to dedicate a wall of the apartment for gardening. The issue still remains the same; how to water it daily. To fix this problem, the proposed system allows us to water the garden from any place. The garden is designed in a manner that pipes are tucked to wall and there is a hole in a pipe for every respective pots (plants). The pipe is then dipped into a tank of water. The system also has the ability to alert about the moisture level of the soil. It is designed to be operated from a phone call. The user can call the system and command it to start flow of water. The system is very smart to notify the user about any kind of mismatch constraints. Ex-Water level is low in the tank.

DESIGN:

In the above diagram, there are various hardware components like Iomatic board, temperature sensor, moisture sensor, flow sensor, water pump, sim card and a mobile. Iomatic board has various feaures and the code dumped inside it. The sim card and the temperature sensor is on the board itself. Moisture sensor is attached with the board with pins on the board and flow sensor is placed down the funnel to check the consumption of water which is in turn placed above the water tank. there are two modes in the system1-Operational Mode 2- Tank Filling Mode Firstly, when the system is on it is on the operational mode which will tell us the moisture, temperature and humidity of the plants on the lcd of the board and on the website also. If the moisture is low then we call to the sim number attached on the board. It will show ringing and then automatically it will disconnect the call. Then it will trigger a message telling the status of the water tank. If it is empty it will send a message stating “Sorry, water tank is empty” otherwise it will send “Water Pump started successfully”. After the pump starts , the plants will get watered automatically. If in case the water tank is empty then we will have to turn the system into tank filling mode by switching on the tank filling button attached with the water tank. The board will tell us the consumption of water in the lcd. After that we have to repeat the same process of calling to water the plants. Once the watering is done data is uploaded online in the website and is also stored in the database. We can see the statistics and graphs of temperature, water level and moisture on the website.

The final model looks like:-

CONCLUSION AND RESULT:

 The proposed system provides a big benefit to the user since user gets to take care of their vertical garden from distant place. The user gets another big reason to use this system is that only the required amount of water will be consumed so again water wastage is prevented Also we are planning a really economic product so that maximum of people can enjoy the benefits of the proposed system. The user only have to pay the buying cost once.. And the proposed system will take all care of their vertical gardens.

Shriya Bele