IoT based Monitoring of Mushroom

Most of India’s population relies on farming for their livelihood. Every year brings new advances in agricultural technology. The use of wireless sensors in contemporary agriculture is crucial. The employment of wireless sensors across a wide range of agricultural applications has a profoundly favourable effect on crop productivity and economic efficiency. The mushroom business is still relatively young and modest compared to other sectors of India’s agricultural market. The white button mushroom is India’s most commercially significant fungus and is a global favourite. It may be grown anywhere with a suitable climate and soil, but most of the world’s supply comes from North India in the winter. For mycelia to flourish, the ideal temperature range is between 22 and 25 degrees Celsius. In contrast, the sweet spot for developing fruit bodies is between 14 and 18 degrees Celsius with high relative humidity. Equipment for maintaining a steady temperature and pasteurising the mushrooms, should be present in the rooms used for growing. The primary objective of this study is to automate the mushroom production plant and keep track of the crop room’s environmental state to reduce the amount of human care required for the mushroom plant. The Internet of Things has also modernized agriculture industries, creating an environmental monitoring and regulating system that is used in the mushroom farm in this work. Using the Speak internet platform, users may monitor ecological conditions in a mushroom farm on their Android mobile, including the ambient temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide level, and light intensity. The Arduino prototype platform is employed as the sensors station’s controller, ensuring that the plant parameters are within the user-specified range. Using a pair of low-power ESP8266 as Wi-Fi modems, the current parameter status is relayed to a distant monitoring station. The integrated Arduino uses the programming environment to write the controller’s code in the Arduino programming language, run debugging and compilation processes, and finally burn the code onto the microcontroller (IDE).