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.