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Greenhouse Monitoring System Using IOT

M.Krishna Mohan1 | Jakkula Likhitha2 | Tejaswy Yamarthi3 | Kagitha Sravani4
1Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, Andhra Loyola Institute of Engineering & Technology, Vijayawada, Andhra
Pradesh, India.
2,3,4Department of ECE, Andhra Loyola Institute of Engineering & Technology, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

To Cite this Article

M.Krishna Mohan, Jakkula Likhitha, Tejaswy Yamarthi and Kagitha Sravani, “Greenhouse Monitoring System Using IOT”,
International Journal for Modern Trends in Science and Technology, Vol. 03, Special Issue 02, 2017, pp. 96-100.

ABSTRACT
This paper put forward a method to realize the communication between wireless sensors network and the
internet. The IOT (Internet of things) gateway is used as part of the greenhouse monitoring system. The design
can multiple access with LAN, Wi-Fi, GPRS, EDGE, 3G and so on also the data can be stored locally. The IOT
gateway uses ARM7 (LPC-2148) as the MCU. The application demonstrates the gateway is reliable,
compatible, and extendible and it provides the real-time detection and control and also the ability to
automation and the intelligent of greenhouse monitoring

Index Terms— Internet of things (IOT),ARM7(LPC2148),Sensors,WI-FI MODULE(ESP8266),MAX232.

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I. INTRODUCTION
We live in a world where everything can be
controlled and operated automatically, but there
still a few important sectors in our country where
automation has not been adopted or not been put
to a full-fledged use, perhaps because of several
reasons one such reason is cost. One such field is
that of agriculture. Agriculture has been one of the
primary occupations of man since early
civilizations and even today manual interventions
in farming are inevitable. Greenhouses form an
important part of the agriculture and horticulture
sectors in our country as they can be used to grow
plants under controlled climatic conditions for
optimum produce. Automating a greenhouse
envisages monitoring and controlling of the
climatic parameters which directly or indirectly
govern the plant growth and hence their produce.
Automation is process control of industrial
machinery and processes, thereby replacing
human operators.
1.1.CURRENT SCENARIO:
Greenhouses in India are being deployed in the
high-altitude regions where the sub- zero
temperature up to -40° C makes any kind of
plantation almost impossible and in arid regions
where conditions for plant growth are hostile. The
existing set-ups primarily are:
1. Manual set-up mode
2. Partially automated set-up mode
Fully automated set-up mode
1.1.1. Manual set-up mode:
This set-up involves visual inspection of the
plant growth, manual irrigation of plants, turning
ON and OFF the temperature controllers, manual
spraying of the fertilizers and pesticides. It is time
consuming, vulnerable to human error and hence
less accurate and unreliable.
1.1.2. Partially automated set-up mode:
This set-up is a combination of both manual
set-up mode and paritial automated set-up mode
and its is more similar to manual set-up mode but

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using this mode will reduces the labor work for

irrigation purpose.
1.1.3. Fully automated set-up mode:
This is a sophisticated set-up mode which is well
equipped to react to the climatic changes that
occur inside the greenhouse and also to produce a
fast quick efficient result with respect to the
human expectation .It works on the feedback
system which give a benefit to respond to the
external stimuli efficiently. Automated set-up
system will provide the chance to avoid and rectify
the errors that are done by the human.
Presently for developing such kind of fully
automated set-up mode the best supporting
technology is IOT (Internet of things).

Fig1: Prototype of greenhouse monitoring System using

1.2. IOT: IOT.
Now a days IOT is not only a theoretical concept
but also practical in reality. Currently the
operation of the IOT is in such a way that machine III. HARDWARE DESIGN DESCRIPTION
communicates with machine and devices through
embedded sensors. By the development of IOT in
the present scenario the infrastructure of the
network is changed to a great extent it means that
the network performance is done through sensing
or by remote controlling.
By the survey it is estimated that by 2020 there
will be maximum of 26 billion of devices will be
connected to IOT , some estimators are also
estimating that the maximum connecting device
may also reach to 100 billion by 2020.
Coming to current working of the IOT ,currently
by using this technology it is predicted that even
more than six billons devices can be connected
and 868 billion USB can be connected to IOT. IOT Fig2: Block diagram of greenhouse Monitoring system.
a technology which created a drastic change in
this technical world. As shown in fig2: the hardware design of the
IOT link up with greenhouse monitoring will proposed method consists of 4 input sensor (i.e.
result a great benefit because in our present illumination, temperature, soil moisture, humidity)
Scenario monitoring or taking care of our plant is a and ARM7 (LPC-2148) acts as the heart controller
big task for human. To overcome man made error of the design and Wi-Fi for the internet purpose
IOT is the best solution. and max232 as the interface between Wi-Fi and
ARM7 and finally the results will be display and
checked in iot app.
II. OVERVIEW
Basing on the development of society, maintaing 3.1. ARM7:
traditional way of agriculture can‟t satisfy people‟s In this paper we have used ARM7,ARM7
requirements. To overcome this problem LPC2148 is ARM7TDMI-S Core Board
traditional way greenhouse is monitored and Microcontroller that uses 16/32-Bit 64 Pin (LQFP)
maintained to great extent using a technology Microcontroller No.LPC2148 from Philips (NXP)
called IOT. and LPC stands for Linear programming control.
IOT stands for Internet of Things. It provides a The strong reason behind selecting ARM7 is it quiet
comfort of remote monitoring and control over perfect and more sutiable for developing many
greenhouse. applications.And it also provide extra benefits like

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modifications. Hardware system of LPC2148  Has SD/MMC card connector circuit by

includes the necessary devices within only one using SSP.
MCU such as USB, ADC, DAC, Timer/Counter,  Has EEPROM interface using I2C.
PWM, Capture, I2C, SPI, UART, and etc.  Has PS2 keyboard interface.
Some technical specifications of arm7 are: All port pins are extracted externally for further
interfaces
Technical Specifications

Processor* : LPC2148 3.2 Sensors:

Clock speed : 11.0592 MHz / 22.1184 MHz In this paper we have used 4 main parameters
Clock Divisors : 6 (or) 12 of the plant for measuring this parameters which
Real time Clock : DS1307 on i2c Bus /w Battery are considered as the inputs for this paper.
Data Memory : 24LCxx on i2c Bus Important parameters of plant:
LCD : 16x2 Backlight 1. Illumination
LED indicators : Power
2. Temperature
3. Soil moisture
RS-232 : +9V -9V levels
4. Humidity
Power : 7-15V AC/DC @ 500 mA Sensors used for measuring parameters:
Voltage Regulator : 5V Onboard LM7805.
Parameter Sensor
1.Illumination………………………........LDR
2.Temperature+Humidity…………..….DHT
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3.Soil moisture…………………………soil
mosisture

Sensor

Fig 3. ARM7 specification board.

Specification of board:

 Use 16/32 Bit ARM7TDMI-S MCU

No.LPC2148 from
3.3. WI-FI MODULE:
Philips (NXP)
The wi-fi module used in this paper is ESP8266.
 Has 512KB Flash Memory and 40KB Static
ESP8266 has been designed for mobile, wearable
RAM internal MCU.
electronics and Internet of Things application to
 Support In-System Programming (ISP) and
reach the objectives like lowest power consumption
In-Application Programming (IAP) through
with a combination of several proprietary
On-Chip Boot-Loader Software via Port
techniques.
UART-0 (RS232)
 Has circuit to connect with standard 20 Pin
JTAG ARM for Real Time Debugging
 7-12V AC/DC Power Supply.
 Has standard 2.0 USB as Full Speed inside
(USB Function has 32 End Point)
 Has Circuit to connect with Dot-Matrix LCD
with circuit to adjust its contrast by using
16 PIN Connector.
 Has RS232 Communication Circuit by using
2 Channel.

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3.3 Working:
The main purpose of this paper is to monitor the
conditioning of the plants in any circumstances.As
we consider the 4 paramets of the plants as the
input ,the information of the plant will be in the
form of analogr ,to convert this the ARM7 board
consists of in-build analog to digital
convertor(ADC) here the data will be conveted and
it will be displayed on the LCD screen at any
instant of timhe . And if the sensing value crosses
the threshold level then the driver circuit wil
automatically switches the related automation
control.This complete process will be done in the
plant premisis.
The above explanation is ok within the plant
premisis but to check and monitoring plant
conditioning from any place can be done only
through IOT by using IOT app we can check and
monitor plant condition from any place at any
instant of time.It will provide best result in cases of
nurseries which takes care of medicinal plants and
herbal plants.Because developing our future
generation and hand overing this medicinal and
herbal plants to them is our duty.
IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
LCD display showing plant parameters in the
plant premisis.
AS we have decided the threshold levels if the
input crosses that threshold then the automation
will be done.
Plant threshold levels that we have
assumed
Hum idity = 50>
Temarature = 35>
Illumination = <110
Soil moisture = 600>
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We can observe our data from any where using IOT
app.
V. CONCLUSION
This paper finally concludes that traditional way
of agriculture and greenhouse monitoring has lot of
defects, following traditional way in this present
scenario does not result any fruitful result.To over
come this problem we derived a solution, that is
nothing but merging the traditional way of
greenhouse monitoring system with a technology
called IOT.It provides the comfort of remote
monitoring and automation.
VI. FUTURE SCOPE
This paper only gave a little advancement over
traditional way i.e monitoring plant parameters
like humidity ,temperature, soil moisture,
illumination within the plant premisis and
providing automation for them and also monitoring
them at distant places using IOT .But in future not
only monitoring plant parameters but we can also
monitor the internal health conditioning of the
plant through image processing ,it means we can
check which part of the plant is having dead cells,
and which part of the plant is healthy. In future
using different thechnology we can also know how
much amount of chemicals are required for certain
plant growth.
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