Smart planter: A controlled environment agriculture system prioritizing usability for urban home owner
Document Type
Conference Item
Publication Date
8-6-2021
Abstract
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) in the urban setting are often conducted on the medium to large scale. These CEA setups are often touted as a potential solution to the food desert problem, and as a method to reduce the distance from the farm to plate. Sometimes, the CEA setup could act as a piece of Green Architecture in the city, as is the case for Rooftop Gardens. This study proposed an IoT (Internet of Things) enabled agricultural setups called the Smart Planter, to be comfortably used by home owners that may have problems with growing edible food and herbs within their homes. The system design of the Smart Planter maintains several operational functions and automation from the larger CEA setups, bringing to the urban home owners the opportunity to grow from produce. The Smart Planter intended to bring to the urban home owners the benefits of a recreational activity, an educational experience and ease of access to nutrition. The result of this study is a physical model of the automated system that can detect and regulate the environment. © 2021 IEEE.
Keywords
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), Cyber physical system, Internet of Things (IoT), Sensors and actuators
Funders
None
Publication Title
2021 3rd International Conference on Robotics and Computer Vision, ICRCV 2021
Event Title
3rd International Conference on Robotics and Computer Vision, ICRCV 2021
Event Location
Virtual, Beijing
Event Dates
6 - 8 August 2021
Event Type
conference