Kliktani: A concept of a smart edible garden using iot for indigenous community in malaysia

Traditional gardening requires labor to control the environmental parameters. The manual intervention method requires high labor cost and it is less effective especially for busy people. This paper introduces the concept of a smart edible garden with the integration of the Internet of Things (IOT). IOT is a smart farming concept that is able to monitor the parameters thus, reducing the need for manual intervention. For controlling the environment in a smart edible garden, different sensors are proposed such as temperature, moisture, humidity, light dependent resistor (LDH) and pH. These sensors collect parameters from the environment to help in the decision making. Data will be sent to a cloud server and is accessed using IOT. IOT approach eliminates the need for constant manual monitoring. It uses a cloud server to store and perform data analytics to control connected devices. This concept provides cost-effective and optimal solutions to the farmers with minimal manual intervention. A solar powered IOT sensors will be an energy efficient option to smart gardening. With these sensors, the greenhouse state, plants and water consumption can be monitored via digital alerts from the system to the grower through a mobile apps and online web portal. Automatic irrigation is carried out in this intelligent system. An automated worm farm system is integrated to supply organic fertilizer for the garden. Worms can turn organic waste into fertilizer, so integrated worm farm can ensure a regular supply of organic fertilizer to the plants. A water system from a fish tank will add the advantage as the water source is very rich in nitrogen and other nutrients came from fish waste in pond water. This multi-function IOT garden is proposed for the indigenous community to give them the digital empowerment to adopt and use technology in their everyday life. This is a work in progress. Results have shown that 50% growth of kangkung plant is recorded in 7 days with IOT farming against traditional farming.