climate controlled sensors in agriculture

Climate Control Systems in Agriculture

Climate Controlled systems◦ Greenhouses◦ Irrigation scheduler◦ Hydroponics ◦ Aeroponics

Wireless sensors

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Research areas

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Source: wikipedia

Research Greenhouse

Plant Growth Chambers

Research Green House

Research Greenhouse

• Overcomes adverse

climate conditions

• Helps improve productivity

• Achieve energy savings

Important factors for plant growth:• Temperature• humidity• light• level of carbon dioxide

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Climate Controller

Green House

Fertigation

System

Master Controller

User Interface,

Monitoring & Reporting

Database

Algorithms & Knowledge

Base

Web User

GSM alarms

Greenhouse: Components

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High transparency Biotech grade research Greenhouse

Real time climate control & monitoring Temperature Humidity Light Carbon dioxide levels

Controlled Fertigation

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Features

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Developed in collaboration with National Agri-food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali.

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Greenhouse @ CDAC

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Future Work in Greenhouse

• Intelligent GreenHouse

• Creation of Neural Models for Greenhouse • Online weather forecast integration• Geographic resources distribution

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Irrigation criteria are the indicators used to determine the need for irrigation.

The most common irrigation criteria are:o Soil moisture contento Soil moisture tension

Irrigation scheduler helps:

To determine the exact amount of water to apply to the field. Determines exact timing (irrigation need)

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Programmable Irrigation Scheduler

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It is the practice of growing plants without soil.

Plants can be grown in plain nutrient solution or in sterile substrates.

Water saving technology. No weeds to deal with.

Hydroponics

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Automatically controlled hydroponics system

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Growing plants in air Even less consumption of water

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Aeroponics

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Miniature energy efficient sensor nodes using ultra low power integrated RF based SoC

On board light, temperature, humidity & battery monitoring sensors

Multi Protocol Gateway Monitoring and configuring software

Wireless Sensing System (Ultra Low Energy )

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Thank Yousaurav@cdac.in