Design of fully automated low cost hydroponic system using LabVIEW and AVR microcontroller

The blooming development in hydroponics has demanded the need of a self-controlled automated hydroponics system. Presently there are not many tools available and the existing ones have significant shortcomings for using the real time information. In this paper, a method is proposed to effectively use the data in real time to influence the counteractive steps. The work aims to build a self-controlled automated system which will be in itself smart and intelligent by optimizing the use of present technology. The real time data will be imported from a low cost AVR microcontroller board and the NI LabVIEW to monitor and automate the process in real time and to send this data over the network for IoT applications. The control will be provided by the traditional PID controller tuning. The system has been rigorously tested which proves the validity of the work and is cost effectiveness in such a way that it can be successfully implemented worldwide and in the developing states of India.