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. 2019 Apr 12;19(8):1763.
doi: 10.3390/s19081763.

PlantTalk: A Smartphone-Based Intelligent Hydroponic Plant Box

Lan-Da Van  1 , Yi-Bing Lin  2 , Tsung-Han Wu  3 , Yun-Wei Lin  4 , Syuan-Ru Peng  5 , Lin-Hang Kao  6 , Chun-Hao Chang  7
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PlantTalk: A Smartphone-Based Intelligent Hydroponic Plant Box

Lan-Da Van et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

This paper proposes an IoT-based intelligent hydroponic plant factory solution called PlantTalk. The novelty of our approach is that the PlantTalk intelligence can be built through an arbitrary smartphone. We show that PlantTalk can flexibly configure the connections of various plant sensors and actuators through a smartphone. One can also conveniently write Python programs for plant-care intelligence through the smart phone. The developed plant-care intelligence includes automatic LED lighting, water spray, water pump and so on. As an example, we show that the PlantTalk intelligence effectively lowers the CO2 concentration, and the reduction speed is 53% faster than a traditional plant system. PlantTalk has been extended for a plant factory called AgriTalk.

Keywords: Internet of Things; hydroponic planting; plant actuator; plant factory; plant sensor; smartphone control.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Figure 1
The hydroponic plant box and the PlantTalk GUI.
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Figure 2
PlantTalk functional block diagram.
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Figure 3
The time series chart for the pH level.
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Figure 4
Configuring a PlantTalk project.
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Figure 5
Project PlantTalk1.
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Figure 6
PlantTalk project 2 and the function management window.
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Figure 7
Function code in the experiment.
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Figure 8
CO2 reduction experiment.
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Figure 9
O2 improvement experiment.
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Figure 10
The video, dashboard and controls for the aquarium applications.
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