Real-Time Greenhouse Environmental Conditions Optimization Using Neural Network and Image Processing

Abstract

Agricultural business is one of the biggest areas in world economy. With the growth of population losing agricultural lands is the major issue in world food production. Therefore, controlled environment agricultural systems under vertical farming have been introduced with greenhouses. Within greenhouses there is not a mechanism to continuously monitor the growing community and change the climate conditions. Existing systems only predict the required conditions for the plant and once predicted that value is provided to the plants continuously or change the values from season to season. To address these issues, a working prototype of an IoT based smart hydroponic system is introduced, which uses computer vision to gain maximum profits by growing a specific cultivation by providing endemic environmental conditions and addressing the problems over its growing process. There, this research presents a way of external environmental condition optimization. Regression type Feed Forward Neural Network is considered for this research to optimize the required conditions for tomato plants. Based on the current height of the plant, expected height for next 24 hours, and growth date of the plants neural networks predict the CO2, temperature and humidity level for next 24 hours with the accuracy of 88.33%, 89.21% and 92.65% respectively. The objectives of the research can be achieved by this retrieved results. The successful implementation of neural networks results a cost-effective modern farming solution for growers. This research will be supportive to attain a fundamental comprehension on the concept of the research area.