IoT Architectural Design for Microgreens Cultivation

Nationally, the combined consumption of fruits and vegetables in Indonesia is far below the threshold set by WHO (World Health Organization) and the Ministry of Health. The increase of population, unstable climate, and the attacks of pests also affected the production of vegetables due to the decreasing land availability for plantations and the growth quality of the vegetables. To solve this issue, this paper proposed an IoT design architecture-based indoor vertical farming system for microgreens cultivation by using User-Centered Design (UCD) method. The proposed approach creates an architecture of vertical microgreens plantation unit that automates the process of monitoring, uses extensive vertical racking to optimize space, and provides optimum growing conditions with minimum human supervision. Thus, users are able to track the growth rate of sprouts and adjust the environment of the plantation to determine production steps effectively to increase the production of microgreens. For further implementation, hopefully we can create an image processing model to monitor plantation by camera.