Control and Monitoring of a Greenhouse Through a Mobile Application

Abstract

The project was designed for the Academic Unit of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (UACAA, for its acronym in Spanish). Under its educational nature, this academic unit has highly trained teachers with knowledge that allows the non-destructive exploitation of natural resources such as greenhouses which are structures of different shapes and sizes that have the ability to generate ideal temperature and humidity conditions for certain plant to grow during the winter, or in sectors where the weather conditions are very adverse. The academic unit has experienced problems of crop loss due to the bad management and control of greenhouses that can be attributable either to lack of time, temperature, humidity, among other factors that affect the development of these crops. Thus, in this project a representative scale model of a greenhouse was developed along with the use of an Arduino microcontroller and the android operating system in order to achieve a task of control and monitoring on such model. The website displays the temperature, humidity of the area as well as the humidity of the soil whereas on the mobile application it is where the three output peripherals; heating, humidification and ventilation ofthe area, are operated.