Smart Cocoa Nursery Monitoring System Using IRT for Automatic Drip Irrigation

摘要

Conventional agriculture systems normally ineffective and consume a lot of manpower and water resources. In this project, an automatic drip irrigation system based on IOT platform is designed. This system is implemented in cocoa nursery at Malaysian Cocoa (MCB) Bagan Datoh. Smart Cocoa Monitoring System Using IRT for Automatic Drip Irrigation is designed by creating optimal soil moisture conditions to facilitate healthy plant growth through proper irrigation frequencies. With a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, the user can monitor the soil moisture in the cocoa plant nursery and the irrigation machine through the network. Therefore, to monitor the environment for this agriculture, the system will collect the information of the soil moisture. Any changes detected by the built-in sensors of the system that can harm the cocoa plant nursery will be noted and the system will provide soil moisture information and can be monitored through ThinkSpeak.com application for further action to be taken. To monitor the efficiency of the system, the height of each cocoa plant (cm) and the number of leaves per cocoa plant is observed within 3 weeks. For comparison, this monitoring system that controlled by a Raspberry Pi3 model B with drip irrigation technique is recorded as Treatment 1 (T1) and the overhead sprinkler technique that has been applied in MCB, Bagan Datoh, Perak is recorded as Treatment 2 (T2). It is observed that the percentage height of coco plant based on T1 is increased by 26.82% while T2 only 16.04%. The percentage increment of leaves based on T1 is 36.31% while T2 is 20.70%.