IoT based Customizable Vertical Farming Solution for Palestinian Plants

Abstract

Water and land are both considered limited resources. A new farming technique was introduced to solve this issue which is Vertical Farming. This technique is one of the best solutions because it improves global food security and addresses environmental degradation issues. Moreover, no harvest would be harmed by a severe weather event, and it can quickly minimize the cooling and heating of water by indoor temperature. Manual controlling and monitoring processes in this technique are complicated, and the labor cost is expensive. This project aims to save users efforts by affording practical controlling and monitoring tools and reduce the cost by providing users with a customizable module for different vertical farm usages and scales. Also, it reduces and nearly eliminates manual labor works by affording an IoT based monitoring and controlling Vertical Hydroponic Farm with a database that will contain all needed information for the controlling process. Finally, the system offers the users real-time monitoring of the system's main parameters and the ability to control the system remotely via the web page. Moreover, the system provides information about plants which could be used by plant researchers to understand how different parameters affect plant growth. The system is easy to use that makes normal people who don't have agriculture knowledge able to use the system for offering house needs of different kinds of plants.