IoT in Smart Chromodynamic Plants Gardening

The present economy of food production follows the trends of constant increase of its production. From year to year, better yields in crop production and efficient management of nutrient supply in flowers are expected. The environmental aspects that affect the well-being of flowers are well known, but the dynamics in the efficiency of nutrient ingestion efficiency and photocatalytic sugar production is something that has only been known relatively recently and has now become manageable. The efficiency of photocatalysis of floral nutrients is highly dependent on the photon-based energy source, or light, and its plant-specific conformal light spectrum. Generally, bluish and reddish tinted visible light sources are suitable for efficient plant growth, making the system more efficient overall (lower energy consumption and other requirements). Such systems are often referred to as chromodynamic plant growth systems. This paper presents an IoT-based system that leverages knowledge of chromodynamic plant growth control. The development and validation challenges are presented and explained. Proposals to solve the challenges are also presented to make the whole system Internet-enabled, chromodynamically controlled, and energy efficient. The systems presented show that chromodynamics validates the horticultural premise of nutrient uptake efficiency, in addition to energy efficiency and the trend toward networking everything based on IoT principles.