Real-Time Authenticated and Secure Monitoring and Control of Low-Cost Sustainable Hydroponic System in Cloud

Hydroponics is the process of growing plants without the use of soil. It is a Latin word which roughly translates to “working water”. Without soil, water provides nutrients, hydration, and oxygen to plant life. Minimal space is used 90% less water than traditional agriculture, and unique design. Hydroponic farms grow fruits and vegetables of excellent quality. Hydroponics still seems to be an under-explored field in India; with our paper, we aim to bring awareness about its benefits and promote its usage. We aim to design and prototype a cost-effective, sustainable, and simplified hydroponic system that will encourage more farmers to take a step towards modernization, along with learning to be more comfortable with new technologies. Our system will be composed of sensors that we shall fit near the water supply source of any hydroponic system so that it can pick up the data from the system and its environment and store it in a cloud database. Our goal is to create a web application utilizing Google Firebase that allows the farmer to see and alter elements such as temperature and pH with a single click in real-time.