Smart Growth Chamber: A Smartly Controlled Plant Growth Chamber System

Bandung, itb.ac.id - Indonesia imports 96% of its garlic, which drains foreign exchange, while local garlic productivity remains very low compared to garlic from subtropical countries like China. According to data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), in 2020, garlic imports reached 587.7 million kg with a value of USD 585.8 million.

According to the Lembang Vegetable Crops Research Institute (BALITSA), the low productivity of local garlic is due to the lack of superior varieties and an unsuitable growing climate, as garlic is a subtropical crop. New, high-yielding, superior local varieties can be developed by cross-breeding local garlic with imported garlic from China. Because imported garlic cannot flower in Indonesia's growing climate, a Plant Growth Room that can emulate a subtropical growing climate (emulator) is needed.

To address this, the Smart Growth Chamber, or Intelligently Controlled Plant Growth Chamber System, is designed to emulate subtropical microclimates. It's a plant growth chamber system where air temperature, humidity, lighting, soil moisture, and CO2 levels can be monitored and controlled by the user directly on the device, or online via a website or mobile app.

The advantages of this product include having a wide air temperature setting range, starting from -15 ^oC to 50 ^oC, which exceeds similar standard products on the market which only have a working temperature range of 5 ^oC to 50 ^oC. The wide temperature range ensures that garlic's needs are met at every stage of the plant's life cycle, from winter, spring, and summer. Furthermore, the Smart Growth Chamber also offers the advantage of a plant irrigation system that utilizes the drip irrigationwhich can maintain the humidity of the growing medium without soaking the plants and also flooding the growing space.

Another advantage is that this product places great emphasis on user convenience, especially for researchers, in accessing, monitoring, and controlling the device. The Smart Growth Chamber offers three user interfaces: a touchscreen attached to the product, a website on a computer, and an app. . For smartphone Android. With these three interfaces, researchers have the flexibility to monitor and control growth chamber from anywhere and anytime. Website and app . It is also equipped with features that help the research process, including plant monitoring through the four cameras in the chamber, notifications regarding plant conditions. growth chamber, and a feature to export historical environmental parameter data. An early warning system is available to notify you when the clean water tank is running low or the cooler's waste water tank is about to fill up.

By using Smart Growth Chamber, emulation of microclimate parameters of subtropical areas can be done with the aim that subtropical garlic can grow and flower so that the cross-breeding process between subtropical garlic and local garlic to produce superior varieties can be done.

Produk Smart Growth Chamber

Fitur Smart Growth Chamber :

1. Measurement of environmental parameters of plant growing space: temperature, air humidity, soil humidity, lighting, and CO2 levels.
2. Real time monitoring And control environmental parameters of plant growth space through onsite display, web. mobile application​
3. Irrigation of plants drip irrigation​
4. Plant growth monitoring through image capture
5. Historical records of environmental parameter data of plant growing space
6. Warning regarding plant growing room conditions
7. Panduan perencanaan pengelolaan tanaman (bawang putih)

Spesifikasi Smart Growth Chamber :

1. Kapasitas : 1000 L
2. Suhu udara : – 15 °C – 50 °C
3. Kelembaban udara : 50 %(RH) – 80 %(RH)
4. Kelembaban tanah : 50 %(RH) – 75 %(RH)
5. Pencahayaan : 0 – 2.700 lux
6. Kadar CO2 : 400 – 5.000 ppm

TA212201003 Team Beser Supervisor Lecturer

Dosen Pembimbing :  Dr. Ir. Irman Idris, M.Sc.

TA212201003 Group of ITB Electrical Engineering Study Program:

• Rizca Shafira Salsabila Makasuci (13216029​​)
• Agung Dwi Laksana (13218034)
• ​​Cedric Samuel (13218060)

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