Smart Garden with IoT based Plant Monitoring System

Abstract

Internet of things (IoT) is associated with a system of interconnected electronic devices through
the internet due to which users and machines can interact which each other. Interactions include the exchange
of real-time data (from devices to consumers) and commands (from consumers to devices). This paper presents
IoT based smart garden which can be used to monitor the plant growth by monitoring the soil moisture and
availability of sunlight throughout the daytime. Why monitor through IoT based device? In today's fastgrowing
world, people are very much busy in there works and usually forget to water their plants or couldn't
place the flower pot at the right place where there is sufficient sunlight. Hence, our system is equipped with
light intensity and soil moisture sensor. It checks the availability of sunlight and moisture content in soil for
the plants on regular time intervals basis and the data is collected by the Bolt IoT platform. After the processing
and verification of data by using a logic which is created using Integromat (cloud-based logic designing),
accordingly an SMS is sent to our smartphone through Twilio (cloud communication platform) and then the
user will take required action according to the data. This smart gardening system will provide convenience
and comfort to the user without their physical presence and helps better care of our garden