Internet of Things in Smart Gardening

Abstract

In the Internet of Things (IoT), devices gather and share information directly with each other and the cloud, making it possible to collect, record and analyze new data streams faster and more accurately. The rapid development of Internet of things (IoT) technology makes it possible for connecting various smart objects together through the Internet and providing more data interoperability methods for application purpose. In this project, We present an IoT-based system for Smart Farming services to demonstrate how to collect, integrate, and interoperate IoT data flexibly in order to provide support for Farming and Gardening. The IoT has already brought in significant changes in many areas of Farming. It is rapidly changing the Farming and Gardening scenarios by focusing on the way people, devices and apps are connected and interact with each other. Moreover, as the widespread adoption of IoT grows, many of the inefficiencies in Farming will be reduced. For example, sensors embedded in farms and gardening kits (such as Moisture Sensor, Temperature Sensor, Light Sensor) will perform data collections, measurements, and conduct tests digitally in no time which are currently administered and recorded automatically. The idea of this project came so to reduce the headache of people as they fail to grow plants effectively. According to many studies, the number one reason why people fail to grow plants is the irregular, over/under watering. People are also busy and tend to forget about their plants, this is where our project comes in handy. With the help of our project we are hoping to save the time of both farmers and normal people interested in growing plants but fail due to their busy lifestyle. In this generation where fully automatic systems are used almost in every life purpose, we have designed this project to serve the purpose of human need. This project is an application of the microcontroller that we use in our daily life. Normally, as we see that in today’s world everyone is busy and has to go here and there for work so they don’t care about their plants and don’t put attention to small gardening problems like improper watering and not efficient sunlight. The project can be used to avoid the above problem. Basically we are developing this application to help people interested in growing plants in their gardens.