Innovating Green Wall: A Sustainable Way of Enhancing the Vertical Planting System

Farming has been beneficial until today due to its contribution to the agriculture of plants, and vegetables which are essential to human life. The problem is that traditional farming requires a lot of time, energy, space, and manpower for the plants to grow. In addition, abnormalities in plants can occur due to water consumption, pest controls, the season in a year, etc. As a result, vertical planting is introduced. These modern methods of farming plants have been widespread today not only to reduce the space and manpower of in planting but the innovation it makes to also reduce the time and energy in farming. Hence, the researchers created an Indoor Hydroponic system, which is a type of vertical planting system, which can monitor the conditions around the plant and schedule the basic needs of the plant which is water and sunlight using related possible sensors, Arduino Mega and Android Application. These components are instrumental to managing the project by providing a real-time update of the temperature and humidity around the area and water level and pH level in the reservoir to the system itself and the Android App. Also, it helps the user schedule the system in terms of irrigating the plants, turning on and off the grow light, and trimming the plant once it reached a certain height. These are proven effective than traditional farming and are supported by data that states the efficiency and betterment of the vertical planting system.