Automation of a Mini Home Greenhouse Using an Arduino Microcontroller

The lack of space in domestic environments, as well as their limited capacity to provide favourable conditions for plant growth and development, are factors that make cultivation difficult in today's urban lifestyle. Low-cost automation technologies, of which Arduino stands out as a microcontroller, make it possible to optimise plant production on a small scale. The aim of this work was to develop equipment with automated control of variables such as irrigation, lighting, air circulation and temperature, enabling indoor cultivation of vegetables and condiment plants using the Arduino prototyping platform.

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Otavio Silvaston Fonseca, an agronomist, began his work at GEMAF - the Environmental Interaction and Plant Nutrition Physiology Study Group, at the Department of Soils and Environmental Resources, under the supervision of Prof Dr Helio Grassi Filho and Dr Antonio Ribeiro da Cunha, at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences in Botucatu.