
Develop a complete indoor hydroponic system for any crops using integrated hardware and software. Control humidity, temperature, nutrition, and lighting with Python programming and IoT-enabled remote monitoring.
Hydroponics grows plants without soil by dissolving nutrients in water and flooding the roots with a nutrient solution, introducing media like coconut coir and rockwool and exploring hydroponics types.
Discover why hydroponics speeds growth and boosts yields by supplying constant food and water, allowing plants to devote energy to producing crops rather than developing large roots, compared with soil.
Identify six hydroponic system types—big system, deep water delta, nutrient film technique, ebb and flow, aeroponics, and drip systems—and note wick systems as a basic passive option.
Explore seed germination by ensuring proper water and temperature, using a growing medium in an Onyx net pot, preparing seedlings for transfer to a hydroponic system.
Monitor and maintain proper pH and ppm levels to optimize nutrient absorption, support water bacteria quality, and achieve a healthier, higher-quality harvest in hydroponic growing.
Explore indoor hydroponics lighting by comparing grow light options, including fluorescent and high-pressure sodium lamps, and using a blue (400–500 nm) and red (660 nm) mix to enhance growth.
An IoT hydroponics cooling system maintains optimal temperature for plant growth, keeping leafy greens like letters and broccoli near 23 degrees Celsius and cooling until saturation when temperatures rise.
Maintain lower relative humidity to enable transpiration and optimize plant growth. Use an ultrasonic humidifier with a ceramic diaphragm vibrating at ultrasonic frequency to create water droplets forming cool fog.
Operate two ventilation fans to manage heat from circuit boards during continuous operation and provide a fan for play purposes in the IoT enabled hydroponics indoor automated system.
Discover how the Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized computer running the official Raspberry Pi OS, uses an sd card for booting and storage to control a hydroponic system and sensors.
Learn to deploy temperature, humidity, and pH/conductivity sensors with a microcontroller and Raspberry Pi to monitor an indoor hydroponics system and automatically regulate cooling and nutrient dilution.
Learn how relays act as switching devices to isolate or change the state of electric circuits, enabling on/off control of a hydroponics automation system via Raspberry Pi and programming.
Explore gpio, a general purpose input output interface that enables input and output between a microcontroller and devices, with Raspberry Pi connections to other modules.
Code for the cooling system of an IoT hydroponics setup. Trigger cooling when temperature exceeds 25 using temperature and humidity data, and send data every 60 seconds with error handling.
Control a water pump in an IoT enabled indoor hydroponics system using GPIO and relay modules to turn the pump on and off with timer-based circulation for the plant roots.
Program the air pump with a delay module and the time package to turn on in the last 10 minutes (50–60) and off otherwise, per the documented sample code.
Learn to use Python on a Raspberry Pi to control a grow light in an IoT hydroponics system by importing packages and coding schedules from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Implement fogger control using humidity data in an IoT enabled indoor hydroponics system, applying threshold logic around 55 to 65 percent and a 60-second sampling interval.
Utilize a pH detection sensor to monitor hydroponic solution and control solenoids to adjust pH within 5.5–6.5, while incorporating crop-specific exceptional cases in the program.
Develop EC-based nutrient dosing for an indoor IoT hydroponics system by reading EC and temperature and opening a solenoid to dose when EC falls below 2.8, with sample code.
Demonstrates running Python scripts on a Raspberry Pi to control the growing environment, including compiling code, applying delays, and triggering cooling and related tasks.
Integrate hardware and software for an indoor IoT hydroponic system using a Raspberry Pi, water pump, relay, grow light, exhaust fan, and temperature and humidity sensing.
Choose the IoT gateway by leveraging a cloud platform that connects thousands of real-time objects using REST and web sockets, delivering millions of messages for dashboards, messaging, and gaming.
Install the keyboard package, run a Python script to read temperature and humidity data, and transfer readings via an API to a cloud platform for the IoT hydroponics system.
Design the dashboard for an IoT hydroponics system by creating credentials, obtaining API keys, linking to a Raspberry Pi, and adding widgets like a temperature-humidity gauge and an on/off control.
IOT enabled Hydroponics indoor automated system using Raspberry Pi 3b+ is an intermediate course on the newly launched Raspberry Pi 3b+. The course is ideal for those who want to grow their own plants in the hydroponic system . This course will take your intermediate coding skills to the next level.
You will learn how to program the sensors to measure temperature, humidity and pH.
Going forward you will learn how to program each hardware required for system. Once you are done with it, we will proceed to integrating the hardware and software. In this, you will learn how to build the system from the ground up and control it remotely using the Raspberry Pi.
You will also learn how to integrate with the IoT platform and control the entire system remotely. You will have a dashboard where you can visualize the data in the form of a graph, table, gauge meter, etc. Apart from that, you can also control the mist machine by turning ON and OFF through a virtual switch on your dashboard. This will be a fun project, and you will learn to program for Internet of Things.