Hydro Fert: Development for Smart Monitoring in Hydroponic Fertilization

• Main Author: Talib, Muhammad Taqiuddin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: IRC 2020
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/21777/1/23255_Muhammad%20Taqiuddin.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/21777/

Fertilization in agriculture is a crucial method of agricultural business in the world whereby it will help the farmers to increase their profit and crops productivity. The purpose of fertilization is to provide additional nutrients to the crops in intent to increase the crops’ growth rate and qualities. The farmers are to monitor their crops carefully, otherwise the crops might be unable to survive. Therefore, farmers are required wisely make decision on their application of fertilization on their crops in order to maintain good health of the crops. There are various type of fertilizers to be applied such as hydroponic fertilizers. As technologies utilization are currently a trend in this era, there are numerous agricultural technologies have proven to become more effective in farming business. Hence, by developing a new system which could collect the fertilizer’s information and sends the data to the farmers through wireless connection could improve the efficiency of farming works. In short, this system will provide benefits to farmers in monitoring hydroponic fertilizers.