Smart Garden Monitoring and Control System with Sensor Technology

Growing crops is quite a tedious task. The demand for this task has increased with the need for more food due to increase in population. In traditional farming, farmers have to visit the farming land regularly to measure the various environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, light intensity and soil moisture to cultivate the crops healthily. Even though this system of traditional farming has been used for years, the system is strenuous and fails to give a high productivity as farmers usually are unable to measure all parameters accurately all the time. Hence there arises a need to have an automatic system that will monitor and control the plant parameters for efficient growth. Automatic garden monitoring and controlling is a way where all the parameters are automatically monitored without any human support. In our system, we use Arduino microcontroller which controls and monitors temperature, humidity and soil moisture through sensors and activates cooling fans, bulb, and motor to pump water respectively, in case of requirement. Information will be sent to the agriculturist or gardener, in case of any abnormal situation through an android app and the solution will be provided accordingly. The proposed system targets a smart way of monitoring the plant growth using automation and an Android app to monitor it. The use of an app technology through smartphones enables the system to reach out to many people as well. The main theme of this paper is to increase the plant yield and produce by improving the plant growth conditions through low water consumption by providing an automatic watering system, thereby saving a good amount of energy and resources as well. With the advancement of technology, plants are hence better monitored, nourished and grown healthily.