Smart Polyhouse Using Internet
Smart Polyhouse Using Internet
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ISSN No:-2456-2165
Smart Polyhouse using Internet of Things
A.Ajitha K. Saraswathi
Assistant Professor, Dept of EEE Student: Dept of EEE, Anurag Group of Institutions
Anurag Group of Institutions Hyderabad, India.
Hyderabad, India
Shivani Sarika N. Dhana Laxmi
Student: Dept of EEE, Anurag Group of Institutions Student: Dept of EEE, Anurag Group of Institutions
Hyderabad, India. Hyderabad, India.
Abstract:- Currently, Internet of Things technology monitored in this paper include temperature, moisture
(IoT) is playing a crucial role in system automation and content in the soil, humidity and light. Using various
reducing human effort and intervention in maintaining sensors the conditions are monitored and appropriate
them. IoT finds applications numerously in different actions are taken accordingly. The system is automated and
fields like health, smart cities, agriculture etc.,. In this it sends message to the concerned personnel regarding
paper, IoT based smart polyhouse is proposed and a operation in the house.
prototype is designed as a proof of concept (PoC). The
system monitors the inside polyhouse conditions for II. MATERIALS AND METHODS
effective plant growth using various sensors and control
the operations of watering, lighting and temperature A. Materials
maintaining systems. Also farmer is informed about the Different modules used to accomplish the solution are
operating conditions in the polyhouse through a explained in the following section:
message.
Arduino Uno
Keywords:- Poly house, Internet of Things, Arduino uno, Arduino uno is a microcontroller board based on
GSM modem, DHT11. ATmega 328 micro controller. It contains 14 digital I/O
pins and 6 analog input pins. It can be powered using an
I. INTRODUCTION USB cable or a power jack. It has a crystal oscillator of
16MHz. In this work various sensor data is being sensed by
Farming is one of the important occupation of world Arduino uno board with the code being uploaded using
population. One of the latest methods of farming Arduino IDE.
technology includes usage of polyhouse to increase
productivity and in turn profits [1]. The productivity of GSM Modem
certain crops can be increased by optimizing the growing GSM is a modem developed by bell laboratories for
conditions as required. The usage of fertilizers for such mobile communications. It is used to transmit mobile voice
crops under normal conditions can be optimized by using and data services at different frequency bands. The modem
polyhouse structure. Agriculture and its allied sectors used in this paper operates in 900MHz band [6].
contribute around 24% of total GDP of India [1].
Conventional methods of agriculture grow crops open to DHT11 Sensor
atmospheric conditions in which crops may be subjected DHT 11 is a digital temperature Humidity sensor
sudden changes in the climate. This will affect the growth whose operating voltage is between 3.3v to 5v. Its range of
of crops and finally the yield [1]. measuring temperature lies between 0 to 50 degrees and
humidity ranges from 20% to 90%. It has three pins like
Green house or poly house is the latest methods being Vcc, GND and data pin [7].
followed to grow certain types of vegetables, fruits and
flowers to increase quality and productivity [2]. Poly house
being broader term of green house is a place provided
under glass or polythene to provide controlled conditions of
temperature, humidity, light etc., for growing various plants
[3, 4]. However with the lack of awareness about
conditions to be maintained or due to human errors
sometimes the productivity gets affected. To overcome this,
the authors proposed a solution of an automated system
using Internet of Things (IoT).
In this paper IoT solution for monitoring and
maintaining required conditions in a polyhouse is
developed. IoT connects sensors, actuators and control
them over internet [5]. The different conditions that are Fig 1:- Arduino UNO
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Fig 4:- Soil Moisture sensor
Fig 2:- GSM Modem
Fig 5:- LDR (Light sensor)
B. Technology Used
To implement the idea of making smart polyhouse,
Internet of Things technology is used. IoT is the concept of
connecting devices and exchange data among them [11].
Fig 3:- DHT 11 Sensor
III. BLOCK DIAGRAM AND HARDWARE
Soil Moisture Sensor
Moisture content in the soil plays an important role in Fig.7 shows the block diagram of the proposed
the plant growth. In this paper soil moisture sensor (Fig.4) system. The target is to sense parameters like temperature,
is used to measure the volumetric water content in the soil. humidity, light and soil moisture using sensors and to take
These sensors are generally called as soil water potential required actions to maintain controlled conditions in the
sensors that include tension meter and gypsum blocks. The poly house. To attain this, the authors developed a
sensor contains Vcc, GND, analog and digital output pins prototype for proof of concept. Arduino Uno is the
[8]. microcontroller board used in the prototype developed to
read the data sensed by various sensors.
LDR (Light sensor)
LDR(Light Dependent Resistor) is a sensor module Fig.8 shows the hardware setup developed to realize
whose resistance varies depending on the light intensity the smart polyhouse using IoT. Whenever there is any
received on its surface [9]. This property makes the sensor deviation in the predefined parameter limits, the controller
to be used in light sensing applications. In this paper LDR will automatically operates the system to adjust the
is used to sense the required light intensity. LDR is shown conditions to required level. If the moisture content in the
in Fig.5. soil is less, then the pump is turned on to supply the
required level of water to plants. Similarly the light
Relay requirement sensed by LDR is less than the defined value
It is a switch which is operated electronically and lets then the roof shutters will be opened to provide the
the current to go through or not. Relay module (Fig.6) can necessary light levels. Servo motors are used to operate
be controlled with low voltages of 5v using roof shutters in the prototype. In the same way, temperature
microcontrollers like Arduino Uno [10]. and humidity conditions are monitored by DHT 11 sensor
and coolers are operated accordingly. DC motor is
considered as a cooler/fan in the prototype. Whenever the
system is operated to maintain the defined level of
conditions the farmer is informed through a message using
GSM modem.
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Fig 6:- Relay module
Fig 7:- Block Diagram
Fig 8:- Prototype Model
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Fig 10:- Figure showing message received during Pump off
condition
V. CONCLUSION
With the developed system using IoT, polyhouse is
made smarter that takes care of controlled conditions
automatically without any manual intervention. With this
manual errors can be reduced in monitoring polyhouse
conditions and also farmers can achieve high productivity.
IoT being the latest emerging technology helps to improve
quality and quantity of polyhouse yield.
