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Article

PlantTalk: A Smartphone-Based Intelligent Hydroponic Plant Box

by
Lan-Da Van
*,
Yi-Bing Lin
,
Tsung-Han Wu
,
Yun-Wei Lin
,
Syuan-Ru Peng
,
Lin-Hang Kao
and
Chun-Hao Chang
Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sensors 2019, 19(8), 1763; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19081763
Submission received: 18 March 2019 / Revised: 7 April 2019 / Accepted: 10 April 2019 / Published: 12 April 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors, Robots, Internet of Things, and Smart Factories)
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Abstract

This paper proposes an IoT-based intelligent hydroponic plant factory solution called PlantTalk. The novelty of our approach is that the PlantTalk intelligence can be built through an arbitrary smartphone. We show that PlantTalk can flexibly configure the connections of various plant sensors and actuators through a smartphone. One can also conveniently write Python programs for plant-care intelligence through the smart phone. The developed plant-care intelligence includes automatic LED lighting, water spray, water pump and so on. As an example, we show that the PlantTalk intelligence effectively lowers the CO2 concentration, and the reduction speed is 53% faster than a traditional plant system. PlantTalk has been extended for a plant factory called AgriTalk.
Keywords: hydroponic planting; Internet of Things; plant actuator; plant factory; plant sensor; smartphone control hydroponic planting; Internet of Things; plant actuator; plant factory; plant sensor; smartphone control

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Van, L.-D.; Lin, Y.-B.; Wu, T.-H.; Lin, Y.-W.; Peng, S.-R.; Kao, L.-H.; Chang, C.-H. PlantTalk: A Smartphone-Based Intelligent Hydroponic Plant Box. Sensors 2019, 19, 1763. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19081763

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Van L-D, Lin Y-B, Wu T-H, Lin Y-W, Peng S-R, Kao L-H, Chang C-H. PlantTalk: A Smartphone-Based Intelligent Hydroponic Plant Box. Sensors. 2019; 19(8):1763. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19081763

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Van, Lan-Da, Yi-Bing Lin, Tsung-Han Wu, Yun-Wei Lin, Syuan-Ru Peng, Lin-Hang Kao, and Chun-Hao Chang. 2019. "PlantTalk: A Smartphone-Based Intelligent Hydroponic Plant Box" Sensors 19, no. 8: 1763. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19081763

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Van, L.-D., Lin, Y.-B., Wu, T.-H., Lin, Y.-W., Peng, S.-R., Kao, L.-H., & Chang, C.-H. (2019). PlantTalk: A Smartphone-Based Intelligent Hydroponic Plant Box. Sensors, 19(8), 1763. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19081763

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