Control of Plant Growth by Monitoring Soil Moisture, Temperature and Humidity in Dry Climate
Nina Korlina Madzhi, M A Nor Akhsan
Abstract
Abstract Monitoring of environment parameter such as soil moisture, temperature and humidity are important parts of plant growth. This paper focused on the development of an instrumentation system and analysis on the effect of the water volume to the soil moisture, effect rate of soil moisture, temperature and humidity for an indoor greenhouse. Data were collected through two experiment. First experiment focused on effect volume of water to soil moisture. Soil hygrometer sensor used to measure soil moisture in real time. Five bottles contained different volume of water poured into soil which the soil is fixed to 200gram.Three different rate of soil moisture applied to plant and the data were analysed to determined relationship between soil moisture to the plant growth. It can be concluded that the rate of soil moisture does have effect on the stem diameter and leaves length based on the observations of the plant growth for three weeks.