Automated monitoring system in vertical farming / Muhammad Aliff Ruzail Rozainal and Muhamad Haziq Shamsul Izran

Pressure on agricultural land from the arising global population is pushing towards necessitating the maximization of food production per unit area of cultivation. Attention is increasingly turning to the implementation of vertical farming approaches. The vertical farming is an advanced level of agriculture technology that practices growing crops in vertically stacked layers. Tradition farming’s arable land requirements are indeed too large and invasive to sustain for future generations to come. With the ever-so-rapid population growth, vertical farming allows for, in some cases, over ten times crop yield per acre in comparison to traditional methods. Vertical farming also allows the production of a larger variety of harvestable crops over the reason of its usage of isolated crop sectors which also allows for multitude of different crops to be grown and harvested simultaneously due to their individual land plots. This project will see the implementation of vertical farming while monitoring several aspects and requirements for the crops planted such as pH level, surrounding temperature, surrounding relative humidity and light intensity to produce the best quality of food as well as conserving the local flora and fauna. Vertical farming is normally done within a huge compound such as building-based vertical farms over at any abandoned buildings and even shipping-container vertical farms which is seemingly popular nowadays. From this project itself, it is believed to prove that vertical farming can be done over in any places especially in households to allow anyone to be able to implement such methods of farming and save the environment at the same time.