Automated greenhouse system is an embedded system that provides control of greenhouse climate or environment conditions such as temperature, light, irrigation and humidity from a single computer and reduce labor required in greenhouse maintenance.
The desktop application written in C# programming language is all the user needs to interact with to provide control to the greenhouse. The desktop application does this through its interaction with the arduino board (MEGA 2560) to which the different sensors such as light, humidity, soil moisture and temperature sensor are connected. The program running on the arduino board is written using C programming language.
When temperature is higher than what the user has set, the cooling system is automatically turned on to cause a drop to required temperature after which it is turned off automatically. When light intensity surpasses the set value in Lux, curtains are automatically deployed and withdrawn when light recedes. Humidity is controlled by measuring its amount in the greenhouse and blown out by fans hence dropping air moisture. The irrigation component works by the user clicking to irrigate from the desktop application and stop irrigation if contented with the amount of time it has been carried.
SUPERVISOR
Ms. Mary Nsabagwa msabagwa@cis.mak.ac.ug
TEAM MEMBERS
Bongomin Micheal bomixmike@yahoo.com
CONTRIBUTION;
- C# desktop application programming
- System Documentation
- Rosebud Greenhouses visit
- Financial contribution
- Blog creation and participation
Ssemaganda Allan Payne allanpaynes@gmail.com
CONTRIBUTION;
- C# desktop application programming
- System documentation
- NFA research visit
- Financial contribution
- Blog participation
Kalunda Derrick genkalunda17@gmail.com
CONTRIBUTION;
- Arduino programming
- System documentation
- Kawanda Research Centre visit
- Financial contribution
-Blog participation
Otim Paul potim@cis.mak.ac.ug
CONTRIBUTION;
- Arduino programming
-System documentation
-Kawanda Research Centre visit
-Financial contribution
-Blog participation
