Growth Monitoring System and Automatic Watering for Chili Plants Based on Internet of Things

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in this all-digital era is increasingly advanced. The need in the form of automatic plant watering equipment in the community is starting to be needed given the increasingly sophisticated technology. Fulfillment of this increasing need must be accompanied by an increase in the productivity of chili cultivation. In this study, a monitoring system has been developed to observe the growth of chili plants integrated with the Internet of Things (IoT) with a power source from solar panels. In this system, a soil moisture sensor is added which functions as a sensor for detecting soil moisture, whose data will be used as a variable for the automatic watering system. Chili growth monitoring is carried out using a height sensor that is stored above the chili plant. Based on the test results, the results obtained for the growth of plants are very good and the soil moisture is below 60% which causes the water pump to turn on and then the data is sent to the Blynk application. And the voltage obtained from the solar cell is 12.95 volts.