Sistema web de bajo costo para monitorear y controlar un invernadero agrícola

Abstract

A low cost web system has been developed to monitoring and control a greenhouse. The monitoring is performed by capturing climatologic variables inside the greenhouse, using sensors and microcontrollers installed inside it, which data is observed through the internet with a web application. The control is achieved by activating the right device, of high voltage, using the web application. This control is possible thanks to the integration of a protocol that allows communication between the user and the electronic devices implanted inside the environment to be monitored from the internet in real time. The system was tested according to the standard IEEE 1012 and inside a laboratory for vegetable’s tissue growing. The results were favorable, and the system is actually fully operational. An agricultural engineer observed the tests. In the same way, he used the interfaces offered by the system, where its performance and capabilities were considered satisfactory. This low cost web system integrates emergent technologies underexploited which can be used to build a wide range of systems, because of the characteristics they possess. This is the case of the selected microcontrollers, which compared to other devices of the same kind, do not require of extra modules, such as network connection module, and because it integrates all in one board and they become smaller along the years, making them adaptable to develop any kind of project.