Now showing 1 - 3 of 3
  • Publication
    Development of a Multi-Fan System (MFS) in a Plant Factory with Artificial Light
    ( 2022-01-01) ; ; ; ; ;
    Akbar M.F.
    ;
    Osman M.K.
    ;
    Setumin S.
    ;
    Idris M.
    ;
    Bin Ramli M.A.
    ;
    Sharifful Mizam N.S.
    A plant factory is a factory that grows plants indoors. These indoor farms could be the key to solve food shortages in the world. Plant factories are operated in indoor spaces under controlled cultivation conditions such as light, temperature and humidity. Then, a multi-fan system (MFS) for single culture beds. The MFS had four fans which were installed on both the front and back sides of culture beds to generate airflow from two opposite horizontal directions by using the Internet of Things (IoT) via the access and connection of smartphone devices. The fans that push the air into the culture bed were air inlets while those that pull the air out of the culture bed were air outlets. The main problem is in plant factories with artificial light, a heat that is usually used to control the environmental parameters and the air velocity is generally lower than the optimum range required for plant growth. Compare to a plant factory without using a multi-fan, it no circulation of air in the container to ensure continuous gas exchange. This reduction in gas exchange can impact calcium uptake by the plants. The gas exchange makes the tip burn. Tip burn can have a significant impact on the salability of a lettuce crop. Based on the limitations that have been highlighted previously, this research has been carried out by using multi-fan and without multi-fan. To get the data that need to be compared. Then, to improve the airflow in a plant factory with artificial light and prevent tip burn occur on the lettuce itself. In a nutshell, this prototype is expected to help plant factories reduce tip burn symptoms on leaf lettuce and the airflow can improve the growth of indoor cultured lettuce.
  • Publication
    Urban Farming Growth Monitoring System Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Internet of Things (IOT)
    ( 2025-01-01) ; ; ; ; ;
    Samsul Setumin
    ;
    Muhammad Khusairi Osman
    ;
    Mohaiyedin Idris
    ;
    Akbar M.F.
    ;
    Premavathy Kunasakaran
    ;
    Muhammad Zubir Zainol
    ;
    Nor Syamina Sharifful Mizam
    As an introduction to this project, the growth-related traits, such as above-ground biomass and leaf area, are critical indicators to characterize the growth of indoor lettuce plants. Currently, non-destructive methods for estimating growth-related traits are subject to limitations in that the methods are susceptible to noise and heavily rely on manually designed features. It is also one of the problem statements in this project. Based on this project the next problem is manual control of nutrients may cause quality issues to the lettuce plant. If the nutrient supply is too much or less, it will disturb the growth of the lettuce plant either the lettuce plant is dead or stunted. This project is about urban farming growth monitoring system using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Internet of Things (IoT). In this project, a method for monitoring the growth of indoor lettuce plants was proposed by using digital images and an ANN using Deep Learning Architecture. DLA is mostly developed by the software of MATLAB or Python to insert and run the coding. DLA is mostly used for image detection, pattern recognition, and natural language processing through the graph for Neural Network. Next, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a medium to store images of indoor lettuce plant growth into the Cloud (Google Drive). Furthermore, it takes indoor lettuce plant images as the input, an ANN was trained to learn the relationship between images and the corresponding growth-related traits with other fixed parameters. The pH level parameters were controlled by other fixed parameters to take the images of indoor lettuce plant growth. The parameters used in this project are temperature and humidity. This helps to compare the results of Artificial Neural Network (ANN), widely adopted methods were also used. Concisely, this project is expected to develop the Deep Learning Architecture using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with digital images as a robust tool for the monitoring of the growth of indoor lettuce plants every 30 minutes per day. Generally, focused on an urban farming growth monitoring system using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and the Internet of Things (IoT).
  • Publication
    Environmental Lighting towards Growth Effect Monitoring System of Plant Factory using ANN
    ( 2025-01-01) ; ; ;
    Mustafa W.A.
    ;
    ;
    Setumin S.
    ;
    Osman M.K.
    ;
    Idris M.
    ;
    Akbar M.F.
    ;
    Farid W.M.F.N.M.
    ;
    Zainol M.Z.
    ;
    Mizam N.S.S.
    Malaysia is currently driven to become another most developed country in the world. Among other priority sector is Food Sustainability. Along the process, our vegetable supply-demand keeps increasing by year. Compared to traditional systems, closed systems or its other name called hydroponic is getting more important for plant production, with artificial light which has many potential advantages, including better quality transplants, shorter production time and less resource use. To gain full profit from it, the quality of vegetables needs to be controlled efficiently. Climate conditions, especially temperature and light intensity, have a significant impact on vegetable growth and yield, as well as nutritional quality. Plant growth and development are influenced by a variety of environmental factors, the most important one is light intensity. Among the problems to be tackled in this research are plant growth manual observation, light intensity variation and abundance of growth-related data to be evaluated manually. Therefore, to solve these problems, the specific type of vegetable used here is lettuce. The proposed methods are, observation of plant growth conducted automatically round the clock in intervals of 15 minutes for the whole month (estimated mature period of lettuce), using images captured. At the same time, the proposed light intensity which is red & white to the ratio of 2:1 (optimum ratio recommended by previous researchers) will be used. The issue of data to be evaluated manually will be solved using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) architecture, in specific Deep Learning. Concisely, the results & analysis shows the research is successfully developed for plant growth monitoring by using artificial neural network which, reached 80% to 90% accuracy in the training and validation session that made the architecture sufficient for determining the growth of the said vegetable. This is indeed foreseen, will highly assist the farmer in better monitoring the growth rate of the plant.