Design and Implementation of the Microcontroller Control System for Vertical-Garden Applications

Author

Chia, Tzu-Ching ; Lu, Chun-Lin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Spacial Design, Kun Shan Univ., Tainan, Taiwan

fYear

2011

Firstpage

139

Lastpage

141

Abstract

A microcontroller control system of PIC18F4520 for the control of soil moisture and sunlight illumination of a vertical garden is designed and implemented in this work. The sensors of the implemented control system including the Zinc-Copper battery and the photodiode are selected from the conventional low-cost soil tester. The input resistance of the receiver circuit is designed to be as low as possible to keep the weak signals of the measured moisture and illumination from noise interference. The embedded functions of the micro-controller such as the analog-digital conversion, the low power precision timer and the sleep mode, are key factors in this application.

Keywords

cells (electric); control system synthesis; electric resistance; gardening; horticulture; lighting control; microcontrollers; moisture control; photodetectors; photodiodes; soil; sunlight; PIC18F4520 microcontroller; microcontroller control system design; photodiode; receiver circuit input resistance design; sensors; soil moisture control; soil tester; sunlight illumination control; vertical garden application; zinc-copper battery; Clocks; Control systems; Irrigation; Moisture; Sensors; Soil; Water resources; micro-controller; soil tester; vertical garden;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC), 2011 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xiamen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0817-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4449-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGEC.2011.41

Filename

6042736