Automated Gardening Portable Plant Using IoT

Abstract

Gardening is a good hobby that can boost our health and provide a good profit if applied in large scales. However, gardening is difficult to be practised by people who live in the urban area due to limited time and space for gardening purposes, An automated gardening portable plant is suitable for planting in a limited space and time environment. The automated system is operated to control all the processes and provide the basic requirement needs for plants growth such as moisture and light. Besides, the plant is also portable depending on the suitability of location. The objective of this project was to develop a mechanical gardening portable plant capable of providing an automated watering system with sufficient illumination for the plants. The network of Internet of Things (IoT) used in this project was able to update the information about the status of the sensors. Soil moisture was used to monitor and control the moisture percentage of the soil. Besides, surrounding humidity and temperature sensor were used to analyse the relation of surrounding temperature and humidity over the time. Temperature parameter added to the system to ensure the system will only watering the plants during the suitable condition. Light intensity sensor also being used in this study to monitor the level of intensity exposed to the plant. NodeMCU V3 was used as microcontroller because it has built-in ESP8266 for connection with the internet cloud. Blynk application acts as the GUI for this project. All the information and data from the plant will be updated on the GUI in the smartphone. As the result, an automated system that can control and monitor the selected parameter for the portable plant wirelessly using Blynk apps was successfully developed.