Distributed System for Remote Monitoring and Control Greenhouse Environment

TL;DR

This paper presents a distributed wireless system for remote monitoring and automated control of greenhouse environments, integrating sensors, PLCs, and graphical interfaces for efficient management.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive distributed system architecture combining wireless data acquisition, automation, and user interfaces for greenhouse environment control.

Findings

Effective remote monitoring of greenhouse conditions

Automated irrigation based on sensor data

User-friendly graphical interfaces for system management

Abstract

This article treats the issue of remote monitoring and control of greenhouse environment through a distributed system that interconnects several subsystems. Thus, a wireless data acquisition subsystem, a fully automated subsystem made of PLCs and industrial communication networks and an irrigation subsystem consists of two water tanks, sensors and actuators are interconnected. According to data provided by sensors, the automatic control subsystem decides whether the irrigation cycle of plants should be performed. In this case, it provides corresponding commands to irrigation subsystem. Moreover, two graphical interfaces (eKo-View and eKo-GreenHouse) are added of the process and presented in detail in this paper.