A sustainable indoor plant production management system with wireless internet access

摘要

Plants contribute greatly to life on Earth and are an essential resource for human well-being. Recent studies suggest that many exceptionally useful plants, for example rare medicinal plants, are rapidly disappearing through the destruction of their habitats. As a way of protecting such plants and optimising their growth requirements, a sustainable and intelligent indoor plant production management system is presented. The prototype utilises the necessary condition values in a data logger website with wireless internet access for smartphone applications. The innovated design was successfully tested for automatic irrigation control and sensor accuracy for optimum plant growth conditions. Further, it is demonstrated that the implemented watering techniques are well suited to ascertaining the sustainable plant irrigation with reduced water wastage.