Hydroponics! as easy as it may seem, in reality, is a tedious and quite intense process. Growing plants require a lot of care and monitoring even in their Natural Ecosystem, let alone in an artificially created controlled environment.

However, I was hungry for more. I Came across a new technology by growing plants without using soil, that's right it was Hydroponics !!!

“It is not about only water, light, pH, TDS, rather it is a complex micro-ecosystem of microorganisms, Nutrients, Roots and Water.”

There is a lot of factors that need to be precisely controlled and monitored continuously for optimum plant growth. If such control is manual or semi-automatic, it becomes a labour intensive process of measuring and maintaining the parameters within a specified range.

IOT for Precise Control

Thankfully to the boom in the mobile devices market, which has provided a smartphone in maximum households, newer uses for the device are turning up, one of which is IoT based monitoring and controlling.

Is it too complicated ?.

This can be leveraged to create an infrastructure that is self-monitoring and controlling. This paper proposes one such Hydroponic Farming Ecosystem (HFE) that uses IoT devices to monitor humidity, nutrient solution temperature, air temperature, PH and Electrical Conductivity (EC).

There are a number of IoT based hydroponic solutions out there, which I personally found to be expensive and over-rated (because most are imported), the need of the hour is to develop a India Centric holistic system that caters to the need of growing hydroponic market in India. At Unearth Farms we are committed to bring a one stop-solution for all your growing cycle.