Abstract:
Plant monitoring is seen as one of the most important tasks in any farming
or agriculture-based environment. With the inception of Ambient Intelligent systems,
there has been a rise in ambient intelligent based devices-Smart Homes and other
similar technologies involving RFID has evolved over the past few years. Integration
of such an ambient intelligent system with plant monitoring makes farming easier.
In this paper, the implementation of a smart plant monitoring system is discussed.
This makes us of the concept of ambient intelligence with the use of .Net Gadgeteer
which, proactively handles the plant monitoring system. The given implementation
works along with a cloud-based server and a mobile-based device (ideally Android/
/iOS device) which helps the user to control and see the status of the plant which is
being monitored by the hardware device. The given circuitry detects changes in the
moisture, temperature and light conditions in and around the plant, and performs a
machine-based curation on the plant by providing necessary irrigation and illumination for the plant. The machine is also integrated with an active weather forecasting system which is deployed in the cloud-based server using advanced machines.
