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Poster produced by Faculty & Curriculum Support (FACS), Georgetown University Medical Center
Automation of Vertical farming project
Parvesh Taneja (ME)
Project in Charge: Mr. Ajay Sood, Mr. Kishore K. Guru & Mrs. Jyoti Goel
Abstract
Materials Used
Vertical farming is the urban farming of fruits, vegetables, and grains, inside a building
in a city or urban centre, in which floors are designed to accommodate certain crops.
These heights will acts as the future farms land and as architects we can shape these
high-rises to sow the seeds for the future.
Vertical Farm Systems builds and installs multi-level growing systems for the year-
round commercial growing of leafy green crops and herbs - with minimal inputs of
water, labour and land area.
The fully automated Vertical Farm Systems technology meets many of the challenges
faced by traditional farmers including climate change, reduced water availability and
pest and weed control without the use of chemicals or pesticides.
Introduction
Circuital construction
Future Modification Scopes
Vertical farming is a component of urban agriculture is the practice of producing food in
vertically stacked layers, vertically inclined surfaces and/or integrated in other structures. The
modern idea of vertical farming uses Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) technology,
where all environmental factors can be controlled. These facilities utilize artificial control of
light, environmental control (humidity, temperature, gases, )
Major Question - 2.4 billion extra people, no more land: how will we feed the world in 2050?
By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centres. Applying
the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will
increase by about 3 billion people during the interim.
Food production will have to increase by between 70 and 100 per cent, while the area of land
given over to agriculture will remain static, or even decrease as a result of land degradation
and climate change.
An electric circuit was designed to measure, display and control soil moisture. A microcontroller
Arduino UNO is used. Moisture Sensor connected to arduino measures the amount of moisture
and gives signal to the microcontroller which further displays it on LCD screen and if moisture level
falls below certain limit microcontroller(Arduino Uno) gives signals to relay which further switches
on the relay which is supplied with 240V power supply and pump switches on, thereby supplying
more moisture to the soil.
Connections with relay are shown in figure below.
Fig. Circuit Diagram
http://www.verticalfarms.com.au/advantages-vertical-farming
http://www.techinsider.io/indoor-vertical-farm-is-the-future-of-agriculture-2015-10
http://www.verticalfarms.com.au/about-bioponics
http://www.verticalfarm.com/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/24-billion-extra-people-no-more-land-how-will-
we-feed-the-world-in-2050-2191260.html
1. Arduino Uno
2. Stand
3. Soil Moisture Sensor
4.Relay
5.LCD screen
6.Motor Pump
7.Containers
8.Water Supply Pipe
Advantages Of Vertical Farming
⦁ Reduction of energy costs in transportation.
⦁ Year-round crop production preparation protection from weather.
⦁ Crops are then sold within the same infrastructure (reduction of crop waste).
⦁ Elimination of crop machinery fossil fuel emissions.
⦁ Growth of enough food to replace lost productivity as farmland is urbanized.
• Minimum Input – Maximum Output
• Maximum crop yield
• Low energy usage
• Low labour costs
• Low water usage
• Increased growing area
• Wide range of crops
• Optimum nutrients and mineral quality
Bibliography
This project can have a more improvised version as the world is moving toward
technology. Few further modifications can be done to this project to make it more and
more beneficial for future:-
1. Rather than providing each platform with water supply, we can modify it to have water
content only to the highest platform or a step and then allowing that highest platform
to supply water to the rest of the platforms,
2. Vertical farming can have a common lift system for all platforms in order to make
working on any of the platforms easy,
3. In further innovation the platforms which we are using can be movable or rotating in
order to provide each platform adequate amount of sunlight and other nutrients.
4. We can also think of fixing led lights, light emitters which works as sunlight for crops
(providing a king of artificial sunlight),
5. Mirror can be fixed on the outer sides of the building in order to reflect sunlight from
all directions to the required area or on required crops,
6. This project can be further enhanced by connecting the whole system to the android
based system or phones in order to control it completely by an android device.
7. The platforms which are fixed presently can be moving so as to make working easy
and move as per requirements.
Fig. Circuit showing connections of relay
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