Home Vertical Farm for Fresh Vegetables

About This Project

The box (vertical farm) is completely automated with self watering, self growing with new LED lighting. Self controllable... only picking up the crop is not automated. I already put some lettuce, and you can see the progress for about 4 days in this pictures below:

I am using the lighting for cycle of 20/4 (20 hours with light, 4 without). This project include also a remote node, so you can control your plants outside the box. The remote node is with solar panel. I run it for about 1 week and there is not so much sun. The battery is still in good condition.

What's Connected

• 1x Power Supply 220v - 12v

• 1x Raspberry Pi 3

To the Raspberry I have connected:

• 1x No IR Camera Board ( I plan to use the NOIR camera to detect the plant health. More about the method that I will use can be found [here])(https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/whats-that-blue-thing-doing-here/ and here). I want to use NDVI analysis of Infragram project.

• 1x Official Raspberry Pi 3 Display5x Relay Modules (I plan to install more because I want to use rails to automatic fix the light surface close to the plants).

• 3x DS18B20 Temperature Sensors

• 1x SHT10 Sensor

• 1x BMP180 Sensor

• 1x TSL2561 Sensor

• 1x DHT11 Sensor

• 1x Arduino Uno Module connected to the Raspberry Pi.

The Arduino is with special Open Garden Shield. On this shield I have:

• 1x Temperature Sensor,

• 1x Luminosity Sensor I can also connect DS18B20 and DHT22, but I don't need them right now.

To the Arduino I have connected the Remote Node, which has the following sensors:

• 1xDHT22

• 1xSoil Moisture Sensor

• 1xBattery Capacity

• 1xLuminosity Sensor.

Triggers & Alerts

I use triggers and alerts to control the logic of the box:

• Irrigation

• LED control

• Fan Control

I plan to add more.

Scheduling

I use the scheduling for Irrifation ON/OFF and for restarting the Pi.

(How did you use Cayenne's Scheduling feature?)

Dashboard Screenshots

Photos of the Project

(Take some pictures of your project living in the wild!)

Video

What I have planned

I planned to add flow sensor, so I can detect how much water is going waste, and also a separate irrigation fuse for every plant as the following (this may cause double the pump power):

TimeLapse Video of growing: