Automação residencial para monitoramento e irrigação automática de culturas de tomates em hortas verticais

Abstract

Since the urbanization process has led to the enlargement of cities and, consequently, diminishment of green zones inside towns, researches have been made in order to find sustainable methods to restore nature into city’s environment, where stands out the concept of vertical gardens. It was found to be a suitable solution for it, because of its proposal to grow fruits and vegetables in reduced spaces. A main example of fruit that can successfully develop in reduced environments is the tomato, which is also part of almost every human diet in the world. Meanwhile, aiming to manage these vertical gardens irrigation and regarding the waste of water in agriculture along with the ongoing hydric crisis, there is automation and ambient monitoring technology as a tendency to be implemented. Therefore, this paper is a research using the Arduino embedded computer platform integrated with sensors, actuators and men-machine interface to control the processes of irrigation and supervision of tomato cultures. Thus, the planting development was optimized and the waste of water seen in the manual irrigation system reduced, these factors established the influence of good irrigation management on the growing of the culture and the efficiency in the use of embedded systems to sustainable automation.