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IoT And Automation Based Smart Urban Agriculture Mr. Dipankar Chowdhury Final Year Student, B.Sc in Computer Science, Siliguri College, West Bengal, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract - “Plants” are the most important part for human beings. Nowadays many of us are very passionate about gardening. My project is mainly focused on agriculture in Urban areas. Whether it is rooftop gardening or gardening in a greenhouse type area or something else. After the development of an Urban Agriculture area, there are always some people who take care of the whole system (e.g, watering, maintaining hydroponics etc.). I am using the IoT concept and automation to make this happen. I have built this system to replace human labor with the internet and technology. I have built a prototype of the system, it does not have all of our ideas which we can implement in real life but it will give a full blueprint of the production level system that we are dreaming of. We will discuss how we can replace humans with technology, how we can maintain our garden more efficiently with our technology, how we can bring the whole garden to your pocket and also my future plans for moving forward with this project.
into it. The main idea behind practicing urban agriculture is to have easy access to locally grown food, understand the way of cultivation and gain basic knowledge of crop husbandry. According to reports of FAO, by 2050, more than 6 billion people will be dwelling in urban areas, which is almost double the current population of 3.5 billion. In the case of India, the reports by the UN state of the world population 2007, by 2030, 40.76% of the country's population will reside in urban areas. By the above statistics, we can estimate the pressure on the rural production system to meet the increasing demand for fruits, vegetables in the urban market. To overcome the food crisis, we have to adopt urban agriculture. Urban agriculture is the savior to avoid this food crisis. [Source: Chaitra Bhat and Amit Paschapur, “Urban Agriculture: The Saviour of Rapid Urbanization”, Indian Farmer 7(01):01-09; January-2020]
Key Words: IoT, Urban Agriculture, gardening, sensors, software, internet.
3. Objective
1. INTRODUCTION In the era of urbanization, the demand for vegetables, fruits has increased insanely. In this time, the importance and needness for urban agriculture is increasing. To maintain urban agriculture(e.g, kitchen gardening, rooftop gardening, vertical farming etc.), being only dependent on human labor is problematic in many ways. My project is to replace the maximum human labor with technology. I have built a prototype that can decrease almost 80% of human effort. With the help of IoT, microcontrollers, programming we can make this happen. This project has two levels, one is based on IoT and another is based on Automation. These levels control the whole system. With the help of some input sensors and output electronic devices, the whole system works.
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Minimum usage of humans in urban agriculture places.
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Continue monitoring the environment(e.g, temperature, humidity, soil moisture, plant height, intruder detection etc.).
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Automatic operations(e.g, watering, maintaining hydroponics etc) based on the values of various sensors.
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Scheduled operations based on input time intervals.
2. Urban Agriculture : What and Why Urban Agriculture, urban gardening or urban farming is the practice of agriculturing in the city area. In this practice, we are processing, marketing food in our urban localities. It is also about animal husbandry, horticulture etc. Apart from urban areas, people are also developing this practice in outskirt areas of cities, called pre-urban areas. It has also an economic importance. It has opened a new door in agriculture where the agriculture is not only dependent on rural areas, the urban people also can get
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