Track: IoT

Abstract

The viral phenomenon of plant gardening and parenting is the current trend in coping with quarantined and lockdown during Covid-19. This is when Internet-of-Things (IoT) can become more useful.  With the rise of IoT, microcontrollers became a staple with regard to IoT projects. A microcontroller is a computer on a single integrated circuit that includes a CPU, RAM, ROM, and I/O ports; some famous examples are the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino Board. Raspberry Pi is a low-cost and credit card size computer, enabling people of all ages to learn computer programming. Smart-Agriculture is an advanced agricultural system that has been broadly polished in developed nations to address the difficulties of increasing demand for food. Smart farming includes a variety of communication and information technologies to improve the quality and quantity of crops. This study is about the development of an automated watering system for urban gardens. This includes automatic watering on the garden plots based on current soil conditions or soil moisture. The developed system went to a series of designs and analyses and passed all functionality testing.