The present study was carried out with the objectives of analyzing different hydroponic cultivation techniques and testing their potentialities to be used as a supplement to conventional farming for the cultivation of some vegetable crops like Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., Solanum melongena L. The hydroponic gardening concepts have been used since ancient times but the concept is gaining popularity only in the recent past especially in the context of acute land crisis and global food security. Hydroponics is a science of growing plants in nutrient solutions with or without the use of an artificial medium for providing mechanical support to the roots. Evaluation of hydroponic cultivation techniques as a supplement to conventional methods of farming. Further, the pilot experimentation in school settings indicates that the comprehensive system design method results in a deployable system, which can become well adopted in the educational domain.Ĭitation: Gurung CT, Bhandari JB, Gurung A.
An experiment with nine GrowBots shows that the different parameters can be controlled, that this can control the growth of the food plants, and that control to make an environmental condition with blue light results in higher and larger plants than red light. The GrowBot system also allows the user to monitor the environmental conditions, such as CO2 monitoring for photosynthesis understanding, on both the touch display and the remote web–interface. This allows school pupils to easily program the GrowBots to different growth conditions for the natural plants in terms of temperature, humidity, day light cycle, wavelength of LED light, nutrient rate, etc. Inspired by educational robotics, we developed user-friendly graphical programming of the GrowBots on several means: a touch display, a micro:bit, and a remote webserver interface.
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The GrowBot includes sensors for humidity, CO2, temperature, water level, RGB camera images, and actuators to control the grow conditions, including full spectrum lights, IR lights, and UV lights, nutrients pump, water pump, air pump, air change pump, and fan.
The GrowBot is a tabletop-sized greenhouse automated with sensors and actuators to become a robotic system for the control of plant’s growth. We present the GrowBot as an educational robotic system to facilitate hands-on experimentation with the control of environmental conditions for food plant growth.
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