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IoT System for Irrigating and Monitoring a Thuja Conifer Nursery
The target of this experiment is to improve the sprinkling irrigation process of a Thuja conifer nursery by monitoring the crops in real time. The aim is to find an optimal way of irrigation that guarantees a low volume of water used and an effective growth of the entire plantation.
To achieve this goal, an IoT system has been implemented for irrigating and monitoring of the Thuja plantation, which has the following objectives:
● real-time monitoring of the Thujas’ environment
● control the irrigation of the nursery manually or automatically
● user friendly web application to access and view collected data
● placing the system in different scenarios to obtain an optimal growth process
● remote control and monitoring of the entire nursery
● ensuring the normal functioning of the system in critical conditions of humidity, low or high temperatures, rodents
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Abstract
The idea of this project is to implement a flexible and extensible IoT embedded system to control the sprinkling irrigation process of a thuja conifer nursery. Considering weather factors and real time monitoring of the crops, the irrigation process is automatically controlled. By connecting sensors, water valves, Raspberry Pi microprocessors, fuzzy logic systems, cloud services and a web application, we developed a sustainable solution to make the water usage more efficient, create a healthy environment for the crops, ease the life of the farmers by remote controlling the irrigation process and expose the opportunities of using an automated IoT system to the Romanian farmers
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