Development of a multi-parameter plant growth monitoring and control system for quality agriculture application

This paper proposed a wireless, multi-parameter plant growth monitoring and control system for quality agriculture application. With the collection and analytics of one-week weather forecast information, the developed system can optimize the plant growth condition by adjusting major growth parameters including environmental temperature, humidity, soil water and illumination data and controlled actuators for proper irrigation rate, fan operation and ultra-sound water level monitoring. Meanwhile, the real-time observation and system performance by an experimental lettuce growth are verified through the selected-ratio LEDs arrangement.