Smart Mini Greenhouse for Eco-Friendly Agriculture

This paper presents a proposal for the design, development, and validation of a smart mini greenhouse intended for small-scale agricultural production. The main objective is to explore the feasibility of a cost-efficient smart mini greenhouse prototype. This paper briefly analyses the parameters that influence the process of plant cultivation. Parameters such as air temperature, air and soil humidity, solar radiation and amount of carbon dioxide are analysed. Based on the analysis of the successful process of plant cultivation, sensors are selected for the condition monitoring in the mini greenhouse. By selecting various sensors, actuators and the control unit (Arduino), a system for condition monitoring and dosing of the necessary elements in the process of plant growth (agricultural production) is formed. With the help of computer design tools, a proposal for the construction of a mini-greenhouse is made. The proposed components for growth support and condition monitoring are integrated into the defined construction of the mini greenhouse. Testing is carried out by designing the control programme and implementing it. By building a mini greenhouse and integrating the selected components (sensors, actuators and other elements) with the control programme, the complete smart mini greenhouse was validated. The validation positively confirmed the proposed and built prototype model of a smart mini greenhouse for production.