Development of USB solar technology based smart home gardening using Arduino system

Dewaras, Thiagu (2021) Development of USB solar technology based smart home gardening using Arduino system. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In the current era, renewable energy sources such as solar energy will be the most important energy in future. Solar PV technology will be the major renewable source. Besides that, in modern world, Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology is widely used to charge our devices and connect our devices to another device. Direct solar PV supply will cause unstable supply to a system. Therefore, a simple USB hub device using solar PWM controller will be the aim of the project. Besides that, people who have an interest in gardening are always busy with their daily life will abandon the basic care on the plant so by implementing the IoT technology a smart home gardening system which able to monitor the growth of plants will be developed. Besides that, an android application will be designed so that users can observe the parameters of the plant anytime and anywhere. There are three main aspects of methodology which are the hardware, software, and flow process. For hardware, this system will use an Arduino UNO Wi-Fi as a microcontroller to control the input and output of the system. The soil moisture sensor, ultrasonic sensor, and voltage are the inputs while for the USB solar system there will be a solar PV panel, PWM charge controller, and battery. Arduino software is used to program the system. All this data will be sent to the Google Firebase server and data will be logged. Users can monitor the system through the android application named SOLAR SMART PLANT. The data analysis will be based on the battery backup time and solar voltage during sunny and cloudy weather. For plants, the growth and amount of water consumed were taken. Finally, the USB solar PV system performs the analysis well, and the implementation of IoT can prove that this gardening system performs well in every aspect based on the analysis done.

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