IoT Based Hydroponics Approach for Soil-less Farming

Abstract: The impact of modernization and progressive development on our environment and ecosystem had drawn our attention towards depletion of forest and farmland. Precision agriculture like inventions and approaches were continuously introduced and accepted to narrow the gap of the need of fertile soil. Hydroponics is one of soilless technique, utilized as one of the standard methods for plant biology research and is also used in commercial production for several crops, including lettuce and tomato. Here we present a hydroponic System that can be easily applicable in laboratories, home, office etc. The proposed project work provides a IoT based decision support system for regulation and control of rate of required nutrient on hydroponically grown product. It provides generalized, scalable and user friendly web solution using IoT.

Keywords: Hydroponics, IoT, Precision Agriculture, Soil-less Forming, NOD MCU, NFT and Fodder.