Week 6 : Benchmarks

OBJECTIVES: 1. To know in details any other ways that we can get the information about the conditions of the plants.

            2. To study the pros and cons of the method used to water the plants.


METHODOLOGY: 1. Make a research on method used to water the plants.

             2. List down the pros and cons of every method used.

             3. Make a comparison on method used and choose the best method to apply in my project.


RESULTS: 1. Using GSM
         https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/arduino-automatic-plant-watering-
system


       2. Using GSM 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nivLJPh5NtE

Picture 7: Screenshot from Youtube (GSM)

                     3. Using Blynk
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPALH_MEa6o

Picture 8: Screenshot from Youtube (BLYNK)

   4.Using IOT
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgcsH8y23Gg

Picture 9: Screenshot from Youtube (IOT)

5. Journal 1: Arduino based Automatic Plant Watering System with Internet of Things, March 2017, by G. Nandha Kumar, G. Nishanth, E. S. Praveen Kumar, and B. Archana.

Picture 10: Journal 1

6. Journal 2:  Automatic Plant Watering System, April 2016, by Abhishek Gupta, Shailesh Kumawat, and Shubham Garg.

Picture 11: Journal 2

7. Journal 3: IOT Planting: Watering System Using Mobile Application for the Elderly, March 2016, by Krittin Lekjaroen, Rachatapon Ponganantayotin, Arnon Charoenrat, Suree Funilkul, Umaporn Supasitthimethee and Tuul Triyason.

Picture 12: Journal 3

ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION: 

1. Global System for Mobile communication(GSM)

• GSM phones have made text messaging a daily occurrence in many places around the world
• The phone works based on SIM card and hence it is easy to change the different varieties of phones by users.
• Required credit to send message or calls

2. Blynk

• Blynk works over the Internet. So the one and only requirement is that the hardware can talk to the Internet
• Blynk works out of the box: no new languages to learn, no additional software to install and no long documentation reading.
• Blynk also works over USB. This means you can tinker with the app by connecting it to your laptop or desktop while waiting for some internet shield to arrive.

3. From Journal 1

From this article, the project is about plant watering system using internet of things (IOT). This journal propose a smart watering system with smart control and intelligent decision making based on accurate real time field data. Other than that, this journal also highlighted the way to monitor the operation of plant watering system via android application in any smartphone. The main body for the prototype contains an Arduino NodeMCU microcontroller. This project are using three sensors which is soil moisture sensor, humidity and temperature sensor and level sensor. The sensors send the data to the Arduino board which will trigger the water pump to turn on and it will supply the water to the plant. The water pump will turn off when the moisture level reached the system halts on its own. Water pump will operates and pump the water to the tank if the water level is low. Lastly, the information about the agriculture field will be send to android application on the smartphone. 

4. From Journal 2

This journal is about plant watering system that using PIC16F877A microcontroller based layout which is it controls the water supply and the sector to be irrigated. There are sensors present which is soil moisture sensor and humidity sensor, which are not activated till the water is present on the sector. As soon as the sphere receives dry sensors, it will sense the requirement of water within the area and it send a signal to microcontroller. The microcontroller then delivered the water to that specific field that have water requirement till the sensors is deactivated again. In case, while there are multiple signals for water requirement and the fields will irrigated. This project are presently use a PIC16F877A microcontroller as the primary component to control the sensor and the motor pump.

5. From Journal 3

Hobbies that the elderly are fascinated is in planting the flowers, which can make them proud when the trees are growing. Therefore, the IOT planting for elderly that will controlled by using Android application has been proposed in this journal. This application will reduces the space between elderly and technology. The IOT planting was develop for the elderly with arduino technology. The HTTP server is used with the web server for monitoring the plant activity. By using Arduino mobile application, the elderly can control this prototype which they can see the plant via monitoring menu which is a real time communication and between the application and ip-camera. The data will be collected in real time by employing temperature and humidity sensor, and soil moisture sensor and send it to arduino. The arduino will send the data by using HTTP protocol to PHP server every second. 

CONCLUSION: There is a few ways that can be used to get the information about the conditions of our plants.