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Solar Powered Vertical Hydroponic Farming using Internet of Things (IoT)

Renly Jade S. Laud (Iloilo State University of Fisheries Science and Technology)
April 25, 2025

Abstract

For hydroponic farmers, this system was developed to a water pump controlled by a relay. But most of the problems create a vertical hydroponic farm with water level, PH level, humidity - encountered in hydroponic farming are that farmers need to maintain a temperature monitoring, and automatic watering using IoT. The controlled growing environment for plants, such as lighting, system was created by the researchers using a prototyping temperature, nutrient solution PH level, and electrical conductivity, methodology. This technology is made to give the farmer a simple way because they affect the growth of the plant. In horizontal hydroponics, to use the internet on their cell phone to monitor their vertical the water is stored below the roots of the plants, where algae grow and hydroponic farm. Using ISO 25010, an international standard for become messy and dirty. This ma y increase the risk of spreading software evaluation, the system was assessed. Even though they were disease to your hydroponic system. The other problem on hydroponic f ar from their farm, the system allowed the farmers to keep an eye on farms is power outages or blackouts. If there is a power blackout for a the condition of their hydroponic farm. They may check the PH level, day, the hydroponic system will stop pumping water that cycles to the water level, temperature, and humidity of their hydroponic farm using plants, which may cause plants to die for a day without water cycling a mobile device that is internet - connected. The mobile monitoring app, to their roots. which shows the farmer's phone the value of the sensor reading from Triston Hooks et al. (2022) stated that during summer or the vertical hydroponic farm and the moment the data was retrieved, winter, greenhouse production of cool - season crops such as lettuce and requires the farmer to have internet connectivity. This was done in an pak choi using deep - water culture systems and nutrient solution cooling effort to create a better Internet of Things (IoT) - based vertical or heating to a target temperature of 24 ◦C increased sh oot biomass and hydroponic farm system for use in residences and businesses. Sensors total leaf area compared with control. Spinach was the most heat - are now able to gather data, which can then be digitally analyzed from sensitive species, and solution cooling to 24 ◦C was not sufficient for anywhere in the world. For those who are new to the field, utilizing an marketable growth. However, both lettuce and pak choi can be Ardu ino microcontroller (MCU) is simple and enjoyable. Here is an effectively grown during the summer with n utrient solution cooling. example of PH level, water level, humidity, and temperature Likewise, nutrient solution heating during the winter season increased monitoring in the field of agriculture using an Arduino Wemos D1 Wi - lettuce plant growth with a relatively low air temperature setting in the Fi Hardware and the Internet of Things. greenhouse to reduce heating costs. Overall, more research is needed for optimization of the nutrient solution temperature range for both cooling and heating of various high - value baby leafy greens.

Keywords

Internet of Things (IoT)Vertical Hydroponic FarmArduino Wemos D1Ph Sensor. According to Daniel P. Gillespie et al.hydroponic leafy greens are grown in nutrient solutions with pH 5.5 to 6.5. Lower pH