IoT Based Mobile Application for Monitoring of Hydroponic Vertical Farming

The demand for infrastructure has tremendously increased with the population growth and it has a direct impact on the availability of agricultural land. Other factors such as climate change, declining water levels, increasing food demands, and loss of biodiversity are posing threat to agricultural production. Therefore, new agriculture techniques and practices such as vertical farming and soi-less farming have a high potential to fulfill the needs of the future world and can mitigate the requirement for arable land. This paper presents the design of an IoT -based mobile application implemented on android studio for controlling and monitoring the growth of plants using Hydroponic vertical farming. The environmental conditions and nutritional parameters, such as temperature, humidity, TDS, pH, water level, etc., recorded from the sensors are sent to the ThingSpeak cloud. The Tashi Home Pindfresh system is used for vertical farming setup and Arduino along with Raspberry Pi are used as the main controller unit.