Solar powered monitoring and control system for active plant wall using IoT and cloud Available to Purchase

Plants are important in maintaining the climate of any place especially indoor areas. The state of art has shown that Active Plant-Walls efficiently and effectively decrease the levels of harmful gases present in the indoor environment and help balance it. Active plant walls can be nourished using monitoring and control system (MCS). The available off-the shelf systems are costly and not affordable for domestic usage. This motivates to design an efficient, cost-effective and environment friendly system. So, in this paper MCS is proposed which takes the advantage of solar and conventionally methods for domestic use. In this model, open-source platforms “Adafruit-If This Then That (IFTTT)” and ‘Google Assistant’ are used as user interfaces. This model uses IoT system and off-the-shelf sensors with sufficient accuracy suitable for a friendly environment system thereby making it the cost-effective solution. The proposed model is low cost, self-sufficient, user friendly and environment friendly system.