Week 17: Submit proposal and draft of chapter 1,2,3

OBJECTIVES: 1. To finalize the proposal and draft for chapter 1,2 and 3 for submission.
            2. To submit the proposal to supervisor.

METHODOLOGY: 1. Completing all report writing before submit to supervisor.
             2. Add some extra information and point into the proposal.
             3. Send the proposal, draft chapter 1,2,3 and the slide of presentation in VLE.

RESULTS: 1. All the proposal, draft chapter 1,2,3 are completed and submitted to supervisor. 
        2. Blog writing settled before submission.

Picture 18: Proposal, Draft Chapter 1,2,3 and slide presentation submitted at VLE.

ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION: Before submitted the draft for Chapter 1,2,3, students are required to check the plagiarism using TurnItIn software which students cannot exceed 20% of plagiarism. After check for plagiarism, then i submitted the draft to my supervisor.

CONCLUSION: By completing the proposal and the draft report, basically this FYP 1 is finished for this semester. 

Week 16: (Chapter 3: Methodology)

OBJECTIVES: 1. To know the operation of this project.
            2. TO identify the function of the component used.
            3. To design a flowchart for this project.

METHODOLOGY: 1. Design a block diagram to show the operation of the project.
             2. Design a flowchart to show the flow of this project.
             3. Meet supervisor to ask his guidance on how to do the flowchart.

RESULTS: 

Picture 16: Block Diagram

Picture 17: Flowchart

ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION: Based on the block diagram, there are 3 sensors of soil mositure are used because for this project, it consists of 3 different plants. Therefore, three relays and three pump are needed for this project. This project will used Arduino NodeMcu because in the arduino it consists of Wi-Fi Module which will make this system more convenient to be used. The user can install Blynk apps in their smartphone and they will control their plants from there.

CONCLUSION: From this chapter, the flow of this project has been identified. 

Week 15: (Chapter 2: Literature Review)

OBJECTIVES: 1. To have more information on the current and previous system used in watering plants.
            2. To know the best system that can be apply in watering plants.
            3. To make a literature review on the selected journal regarding plant watering system.

METHODOLOGY: 1. Make a research on the IEEE website to find a suitable journal related with this plant watering system.
             2. List down the important point such as the operation and the flow of the project based on the journal.

RESULTS: The journal are: 

1. “Arduino Based Automatic Plant Watering System”, S. V. Devika, S.k.Khamuruddeen, Sk.Khamurunnisa, Jayanth Thota, Khalesha Shaikh, Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, HITAM, Hyderabad, India, MSC 2nd Year, Department Of Electronics, HRD, Hyderabad, India. Websitewww.ijarcsse.com
2.  D. Divani, P.Patil and S.K.Punjabi, "Automated Plant Watering System", 2016 International Conference on Computing of Power, Energy Information and Communication (ICCPEIC), Chennai, 2016, pp. 180-182.
3. K. Lekjaroen, R. Ponganantayotin, A. Charoenrat, S. Funilkul, U. Supasitthimethee and T. Triyason, "IOT Planting: Watering system using mobile application for the elderly", 2016 Chiang Mai, pp. 1-6.

ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION: 

In the first journal,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.

In the second journal,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.

In the third journal,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: The information of the current and previous system used in this plant watering has been gained. The literature review has been reviewed based on the three different journal.

Week 14: (Chapter 1: Introduction)

OBJECTIVES: 1. To describe the flow of the project.
            2. To identify the benefits of this project.
            3. To identify the problem statement faced by people regarding watering their plants.

METHODOLOGY: 1. Make a research on the internet or journal regarding the problem faced by people in watering the plants.
             2. List the objectives of the project, problem statement, benefit, scope and limitation for this project and the expected outcome.

RESULTS: 
1) Objectives:

• To water the plant automatically using Arduino
• To monitor the soil moisture of the soil
• To get the information of the current soil condition using Blynk Application

2) Problem Statement

As for watering plant, a chore is increasing in time when there are a lot of plants to be watered. Therefore, a person with a busy lifestyle did not have enough time to water the plant by themselves. People usually wastage the water when watering their plant due to supply the water more than the plant required.  Other than that, people who are interested in gardening or those who plant flowers find it difficult to leave their plants even if they go on vacation because they are worried that their plants will wilt and eventually will die. The same thing happens also with flower or plant entrepreneurs, which is, it is difficult for them to monitor their plants whether they have been watered or have not yet since they have other plants to be look after too.

3) Benefits

  i. Can reduce the workload to control and water the plants.

 ii. Can shorten the time to water the plants.

iii.Can still watered the plants if there is nobody at home in a period of time.

iv. Can reduce the water usage to water the plant.

4) Expected Outcome

        At the end of this project, it is expected that this product will reduce the time for watering the plants around the house. Besides, the workload for doing the watering chores is reducing. When there is nobody at home, the machine will continuously water the plants according to the set-up program. 

5) Scope and Limitation

The scope of this project covers the watering process of plants in the residential area. This project focusses on the timing and watering process of the plants. Apart from that, the scope of this project is to control plant watering system by utilizing arduino and in view of Android apps. For the time being, this prototype can only support 3 pots of plant in a time.

            This project is not suitable for four season country because it is not able to support different kind of weather and temperature changes on the water and soil. 

ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION: For chapter 1 which is introduction, objectives, problem statement, benefit of this project, scope and limitation, and the expected outcome have been detailed in this chapter. Meaning to say, it is the summary of this project.

CONCLUSION: This chapter describe all the objectives, problem statement that related with this project. The flow of this project has been told in this chapter.