Wireless Greenhouse Monitoring System Using Tricycle Mobile-Robot Based On Rasberry PI

The global population is projected to grow from around 7.3 billion (in 2017) to nearly 9.8 billion in 2050. In low-income countries, the population can double to 1.4 billion. Therefore, a 50 percent increase in food and other agricultural production will be needed from 2012 to the middle of the century. This increase has implications for agriculture and the food system to adapt significantly to becoming more productive and diversifying while overcoming climate change and unpredictable natural disasters. With integrated agricultural technology, agricultural productivity can also be increased even in limited land. Based on this, in this study, a wireless mobile-robot control system was developed which was designed to support a smart-greenhouse monitoring system using the Raspberry Pi. Mobile-robot made using the tricycle drive system. Mobile-robot is also equipped with 2 DOF manipulator arms to drive the monitoring camera mounted on the robot. Temperature and humidity sensors are also connected to the Raspberry Pi controller to be able to read environmental conditions in the green-house in real-time. Utilizing VNC remote desktop technology, the GUI application from Raspberry Pi can be accessed wirelessly using a network that is available on a green-house. The output of this research is a wireless control system on a mobile-robot for remote monitoring of greenhouse conditions.