Abstract:
This paper automates plant monitoring, data collection, and smart gardening using IoT. Home
forestation (such as gardening) on rooftops, balconies and the living room has nowadays become
common in urban areas because there are fewer land resources to plant trees. Also, it increases
the interior beauty of a house. In urban areas trees are decreasing day by day at an alarming rate.
At the same time, the population is increasing inversely proportional to trees. As a result, the
air is polluted at a massive rate in urban areas. Home forestation or gardening is a smart
solution to this life-threatening problem. In urban areas, people lead busy lives. They have less
time to do gardening with proper knowledge. Even if they try to do gardening with less
information, most of the time they fail. A plant needs 4 basic elements to grow such as:
Light, Humidity, Temperature, Soil moisture. Every plant requires different environmental
variables. The motive of this research is to conduct data mining on these four elements in
the home environment to analyze the environmental requirements for the survival of each plant
based on Plant taxonomy. In the future, it will help me to make a smart platform “Eco Friend”
which will suggest to users the plants that are best for their home environment. The data will be
collected using IoT including the device NodeMCU, Sensors and later analyzed with Data
mining tools.
