Urban Farming NYP Project c5

DRIVING QUESTION

How can we help urban farmers monitor and control resources like water and light to ensure sustainability

Project introduction

As a densely populated city-state with limited land for traditional agriculture, Singapore faces unique challenges in achieving food security and sustainability. With its ambitious “30 by 30” goal—to produce 30% of its agriculture needs locally by 2030. We aim to build a system that allows farming to be more efficient and accessible for farmers.

Our project

For our first m5stack, we connected one earth and one env2 sensor into the m5stack. When button A is pressed the reading from the env2 sensor( temperature and humidity) is displayed on the lcd screen. When button b is pressed, the reading from the earth unit(moisture) will be displayed. Also when button a is pressed, should the reading of temperature or humidity be not suitable for the plant, the rgb and speaker will turn on, alerting the user to quickly better the conditions of the plants. Same also goes for button B. All if this info is also projected by an website that can be accessed by scanning a QR code on the m5stack

For the secondary m5stack, we inputted one light sensor to measure the light on the plant, if there is too much light(>900), we used a servo motor as a sunroof to restrict the amount the light being shone on the plant. This prevents the plant from being damaged.