AgriSys: A smart and ubiquitous controlled-environment agriculture system

With new technological advancement in controlled-environment agriculture systems, the level of productivity has significantly increased. Agriculture systems are now more capable, reliable, and provide enhanced productivity. An agriculture environment can range from a single plant in a house, a backyard garden, a small farm, to a large farming facility. These agricultural automated systems will help in managing and maintain safe environment especially the agricultural areas. In this paper, we propose a smart Agriculture System (AgriSys) that can analyze an agriculture environment and intervene to maintain its adequacy. The system deals with general agriculture challenges, such as, temperature, humidity, pH, and nutrient support. In addition, the system deals with desert-specific challenges, such as, dust, infertile sandy soil, constant wind, very low humidity, and the extreme variations in diurnal and seasonal temperatures. The system interventions are mainly intended to maintain the adequacy of the agriculture environment. For a reduced controller complexity, the adoption of fuzzy control is considered. The system implementation relies on state-of-art computer interfacing tools from National Instruments as programmed under LabVIEW.