Nama Mahasiswa : 1. Rizal Aulia Ramadhan NRP.

2214 030 027

2. Pristy Tunjung Hapsari NRP. 2214 030 091

Monitoring and Control of Aeroponic Growing

System for Potato Production
Irman Idris, Muhammad Ikhsan Sani
School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Bandung Institute of Technology
Bandung, Indonesia
irman@ic-proc.paume.itb.ac.id
m.ikhsan.sani@gmail.com

Abstract- Aeroponic is the method of cultivating plants inside a conditioned air

environment without the use of soil or water medium. This method grows plants
suspended in a closed or semi-closed environment (chamber) by spraying the plant's
dangling roots and lower stems with nutrient-rich solution. Under this circumstances,
controlled environment has a strong potential to improve plants' developmental stages,
health, and growth. In the recent decade, aeroponic system is applied intensively for
the purpose of growing potato in order to produce disease-free potato seed and in
order to have a pesticides-free cultivation environment. It is also predicted that the
aeroponic method will be able to lower potato farmers' cost of operation and increase
their yields. A monitoring and control system intended for water and nutrients
distribution has been designed to support the optimal application of aeroponic
cultivation system for seed-potatoes production. The monitoring system was used to
monitor the chamber's parameters such as temperature and humidity. meanwhile, the
control system was used to manage actuators in delivering water and nutrients.
Temperature and humidity data will be displayed on the LCD and be transmitted to
computer to facilitate easier monitoring on the plant growing chamber. The overall
system has been designed and implemented to receive user-defined setting points by
using the keypad. Microcontroller system will automatically regulate actuators for
distribution of water (pump and nozzle) and distribution of nutrients (ultrasonic mist
maker, fan, and pump). The pH measurement results at various points showed that the
nutrient (pH = 5.8) were successfully spread inside the growing chamber. The average
measured-temperature and humidity of growing chamber during the water and nutrients
delivery process are 19.6 C and 83.3% RH, respectively, which meet the
environmental requirements for potatoes to grow productively. The system was tested in
potato seed greenhouse at Vegetables Research Institute (Balitsa), Ministry of
Agriculture, in Lembang, West Java, Indonesia.

Keywords- aeroponic, monitoring system, control system, sensor, potato

1. Backround : Aeroponic is the method of cultivating plants inside a

conditioned air environment without the use of soil or water
medium. This method grows plants suspended in a closed or semi-
closed environment (chamber) by spraying the plant's dangling roots
and lower stems with nutrient-rich solution.

2. Problem : Controlled environment has a strong potential to improve

plants' developmental stages, health, and growth.
 Growing potato in order to produce disease-free potato seed and in
order to have a pesticides-free cultivation environment
3. Methods :
4. Hypothesis : A monitoring and control system intended for water
and nutrients distribution has been designed to support the optimal
application of aeroponic cultivation system for seed-potatoes
production.
The monitoring system was used to monitor the chamber's
parameters such as temperature and humidity.
Aeroponic Based Controlled Environment Based Farming System
1
P Mithunesh, 2Kiran Gupta, 3Sujata Ghule, 4Prof. Shailesh Hule
1,2,3,4
Department of Computer Engineering Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering , Pune

Abstract: Controlled Environment Farming is one of the emerging technologies in the

farming and agriculture industries nowadays. Aeroponics is an optimized process
developed for growing crops and plants in an air medium without the use of soil or
an aggregate medium by spraying the plants roots with an atomized or sprayed,
nutrient-rich water solution. Various automated farming system has been developed
using sensor networks and control systems to improve agricultural produc-tivity. Traditional
farming techniques are complex and strictly influenced by soil conditions, climate,
weather, crop types, and so on. Authors have proposed a system in which an
environment monitoring, quality evaluation and crop growth, data recording, and
online data submitting and multiplatform compatibility were integrated. The control
system based on agricultural information measured by field monitoring sensors is a
proved effective method to improve quality of agricultural product in a greenhouse.
In this study, we proposed an intelligent control system for an aeroponics-based
greenhouse, which consists of data collec-tion/monitoring system, control system,
centralized sever, and multiplatform web -based controlling/monitoring application for
agricultural facilities. The prototype system for establishing a low-cost aeroponics-based
greenhouse control system can be designed based on an open-source development
board called Raspberry Pi. The system can be used both locally and over the Internet,
which has a large set of controlling and monitoring function for the greenhouse. The
system is proposed to achieve maximum optimization, control, quality, automation, etc. in
an aeroponics-based greenhouse.

1. Background : Controlled Environment Farming is one of the emerging

technologies in the farming and agriculture industries nowadays.
Aeroponics is an optimized process developed for growing crops
and plants in an air medium without the use of soil or an
aggregate medium by spraying the plants roots with an atomized
or sprayed, nutrient-rich water solution.
2. Problem : Traditional farming techniques are complex and strictly
influenced by soil conditions, climate, weather, crop types, and so on.
Authors have proposed a system in which an environment monitoring,
quality evaluation and crop growth, data recording, and online data
submitting and multiplatform compatibility were integrated.
3. Methods :
4. Hypothesis : The control system based on agricultural information
measured by field monitoring sensors is a proved effective method
to improve quality of agricultural product in a greenhouse.
The system is proposed to achieve maximum optimization, control,
quality, automation, etc. in an aeroponics-based greenhouse.