Development of An Automated Hydroponic System for Leafy Vegetables

With the increasing demand for sustainable and efficient agricultural practices, hydroponics has emerged as a promising solution for cultivating crops in controlled environments. However, traditional hydroponic systems can be time-consuming and labor-intensive. To address these challenges, automated hydroponic system using Arduino UNO and NodeMCU is developed. The objectives of this paper are to develop an automated hydroponic system for leafy vegetables and monitor the growth of the leafy vegetables with the system developed. The scopes of this project focused on planting leafy vegetables hydroponically using NFT. system incorporates sensors to continuously monitor the crucial parameters that are important for hydroponic such as TDS value, pH value and water level of the nutrient water. Additionally, the automated hydroponic system incorporates remote monitoring and control capabilities through the implementation of IoT application using Blynk. In this project, this automated hydroponic system shows significant advantages over manual control of hydroponic since yield is increase with 10.28kg/m2 where the weight per plant is from 82.3g to 91.2g, enable labour requirement to be reduced.

Hydroponic, Arduino UNO, NodeMCU, IoT application

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