An IoT based Automated Hydroponics Farming and Real Time Crop Monitoring

As the world is moving at a very fast pace in aspects like technology and science, farming methods are also changing. Soil erosion and infertility is a very big issue in traditional farming and so to evade this a soilless farming also known as hydroponics is becoming very popular. Hydroponics is a technique for growing plants without the use of soil in a controlled manner by providing necessary nutrients to the crop. The existing systems of farming require regular ploughing and weeding of land, use of large area and an enormous amount of water. All these problems can be eradicated by using the hydroponics system of farming, and reduce the work of the farmer by automating the watering processes. The idea of proposed hydroponic style vertical farming is to use the Internet of Things (IoT) for sensing and monitoring important factors such as pH, TDS, temperature, and humidity to automate the system. The novelty of the project lies in its feature of automating the irrigation process, displaying all-important factors on an app and notifies the user through email in abnormal conditions.