An Embedded Fuzzy Logic Microcontroller For Plant Condition Monitoring: A Wireless Sensor Network Odyssey

Recent developments in the area of wireless sensor monitoring and application can be categorized into various areas such as building monitoring, crop condition monitoring and more recently in the usage of driverless cars. Also, WSNs have been applied in areas such as environmental monitoring, traffic control and energy management. Even there has been a broad application of WSN in different fields, the application of WSN with fuzzy decision-based rules has not been applied widely in some areas and more so in green house crop management and condition monitoring. To that effect, it is necessary to develop a system based on design science research (DSR) that will monitor the condition of the plant. i.e. temperature, humidity and water. As such, this paper designs and discusses a wireless sensor network that would monitor the greenhouse conditions using fuzzy decision rules. The results showed that the system was capable of providing a low cost, environmental monitoring system and to an extent control the level of humidity and monitor temperature conditions.