IoT Based Environment Controller for Mushroom Cultivation

Abstract

Mushroom is a delicious and delicatessen food all over the world. As they have no skin, moisture is required to produce the fruit or sporophore of mushrooms. For this reason, mushrooms need an environment (humidity 80% to 90% and temperature 14˚C to 18˚C) that has high humidity to avoid water loss. For this, farmers have to spend much time in the cultivation room to maintain a proper environment. This paper introduces the Internet of Things (IoT) based automatic environment controller. This controller can monitor the ideal environment of the cultivation room ubiquitously. The proposed system can monitor and control the humidity and temperature of the mushroom cultivation room and presents the data on the cloud server every thirty seconds in the form of tables and graphs. A cost-effective solution is provided using the less-costly and low-power consumes hardware to design the controller. The system is evaluated and experimental results show that it can be efficiently used as an environment controller.