Smart IoT System for Indoor Plants with Augmented Artificial Lighting

The Era of the $21^{\mathrm{s}\mathrm{t}}$ century is of green buildings, landscaping, vertical farming, LEDs in urban lighting, multicolor LEDs for beautification, illumination using centralized control, IoT, and Wi-Fi techniques are the futuristic goal across the Globe. An innovative method is proposed to grow indoor vertical gardening under artificial lights to maintain a healthy indoor environment to improve the quality of the air, and protection of building construction structure. Smart indoor gardening methods are the trends based on the Internet of Things (IoT) which are becoming popular recently to maintain the aesthetic views of the building. In this paper, a Smart IoT System for Indoor plants with Augmented Artificial Lighting is proposed for monitoring of plants. A microcontroller NodeMCU (ESP8266) along with an MQ-135 gas sensor and DHTII sensor was implemented as an IoT node. The visualization of the system’s data was displayed using a web portal and stored in CSV format. The Augmentation of artificial lightning enhances indoor plant growth. A multi-node IoT system can fulfill the demand of smart gardening and floral industries.