Automation in the vegetable garden
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Documentation - orientation on measuring and controlling in the vegetable garden using sensors
Document made as an orientation on possibilities of automation in the vegetable garden with a focus on low cost solutions and for medium sized vegetable gardens and greenhouses in particular. For instance Community Supported Agriculture. Overview of points to consider and options for automating certain tasks.
The document covers:
- Solutions for measuring and storing data with sensors like temperature, humidity, windspeed, rain
- Actuators to (automatically) carry out tasks like hoop house roll up motors, window openers
- Electricity solutions (power grid or solar and battery)
- Internet options (line or mobile via SIM card)
- Wired communication vs wireless communication, LoraWAN in particular
- Background on theory of humidity control
- Options for remote access of data
- Software packages like Orisha, Home Assistant and others
- Discusses open source vs commercial vendors, Cloud vs local solutions
- Attention to the need to verify whether sensors are showing right value with reference values (calibration)
Any updates to the document will be published here.
Version: July 23rd 2024
Download: Orientation on measuring and controlling in the vegetable garden using sensors (pdf, 9mb)
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Document oriëntatie op meten en sturen in de groententuin met behulp van sensoren
Overzicht met aandachtspunten en mogelijkheden voor het automatiseren van bepaalde taken in de tuin met behulp van sensoren. Eventuele updates van het document worden hier gepubliceerd.
Versie: 16 oktober 2023
Orientatie sensoren in de tuin (pdf, 9mb)
