PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES

Week 1.0

Category: Principles and Practices

Session Date: 26th Jan 2022 to 1st Feb 2022

Assignment: Plan and sketch a potential final project

Smart mushroom farming

I was working under tourism sector before covid19 pandemic hit our country. After the pandemic I was left with no work so I went back to my village and started doing farming works. While working in village I knew that our government encourages farmers to do mushroom farming. I wanted to start a mushroom farm but in middle I got opportunity to study in fab academy. So for my final project I wanted to work with automated mushroom farming. Most of the mushroom farms in bhutan are worked manually.

I was working under tourism sector before covid19 pandemic hit our country. After the pandemic I was left with no work so I went back to my village and started doing farming works. While working in village I knew that our government encourages farmers to do mushroom farming. I wanted to start a mushroom farm but in middle I got opportunity to study in fab academy. So for my final project I wanted to work with automated mushroom farming. Almost all mushroom farms in Bhutan are worked manually.

Why smart mushroom farming

The main reason I choose this project is because I wanted to turn all mushroom farms of Bhutan into smart mushroom farming. As in our country especially on agriculture farming we still work manually. With my project I can show how we can work with technology for mushroom farming. For my project I wanted to build a small model of mushroom farming house which will be connected to smart phone through Bluetooth. we can check the humidity of room through smart phone. I will install a humidifier and 100w bulb(as a heater) as an output device. When the humidity goes below required humidity it will automatically turn on the humidity

Rough sketch of my final project

Components for my final project

Components that are required for my project

Input Device

1.DHT22

Microcontroller

1.ESP32

Output Device

1.Humidifier

2.Three 100w bulbs

3.Water sprinklers

Switch

1.Relay module