A Report on

Smart Polyhouse
(Polyhouseie)
for

IOE Mini Project of Final Year, (BE Sem-VII)

in

Information Technology

by

1. Aashish Sharma (54)

2. Manish Talele (55)
3. Tejas Tamkar (56)

Under the guidance of

Asst. Prof. Shubhangi Verulkar

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI

AY 2022-2023

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 Excelssior Education Society’s
K.C. College of Engineering and Management Studies and Research
Mith Bunder Road, Near Hume Pipe, Kopri, Thane (E)-400603

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the project entitled “Smart Polyhouse (Polyhouseie)” is a bonafide work of

1. Aashish Sharma (54)

2. Manish Talele (55)
3. Tejas Tamkar (56)

submitted to the University of Mumbai in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of IOE
Mini Project of Final Year, (BE Sem-VII) in Information Technology Engineering as laid down by
University of Mumbai during academic year 2022-23

(_____________________) (_____________________)
Examiner/Reviewer-1 Examiner/ Reviewer -2

Guide Head of Department Principal

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 Abstract

A large part of the world's population depends upon the agriculture industry for its source of livelihood.
The growth of the agriculture industry is bound to the two major parameters; quality and quantity yield of
the crops. Polyhouse farming is an excellent method which enables the production of crops with
minimum resources and efforts and maximum yield by providing a controlled condition environment.

This project helps the agriculture fields to manage and control the flow of their landfills with ease. With
minimum hardware and phone app to control the hardware with the palm of their hands.

This solution will help reduce 40% waste of the landfills and farms. with sudden changes in climate . The
polyhouse can handle the environment as per the user. Polyhouse is a methodology to grow crops under
controlled environments with continuous monitoring and analysis.

In a Smart Polyhouse system you can grow your crops in our favourable conditions. We can adjust the
amount of sunlight a particular crop gets, the amount of water the soil or a crop requires and also measure
the moisture content of your soil just using a mobile application.

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 Acknowledgement

I take this opportunity to express my deep sense of gratitude and sincere thanks to all who helped me to
complete the work successfully. My first and foremost thanks go to God Almighty who showered his
immense blessings on my effort.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Amarja Adgaonkar (Head of the department), for her
support and cooperation. I am deeply indebted to my guide, Prof. Mrs. Shubhangi Verulkar for his
excellent guidance, constant encouragement, suggestions, and constructive feedback in the completion of
the seminar.

I wish to express my sincere gratitude towards the staff members of our Department and Department
Library.

Finally, I thank my parents, all my friends, and near and dear ones who directly and indirectly contributed
to the successful completion of this work.

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 INDEX

Sr. No. Name of Topic Page no.

Abbreviation 6

List of Figures 7

List of tables 8

1 Introduction 9

2 Literature Survey 10

3 Problem Statement 13

4 Mini Project Design (Principle and working) 14

4.1 Block Diagram
4.2 Block Diagram Description
4.3 Circuit Diagram and Working

5 Components/Tools to be used 16
5.1 Components (Hardware)
5.2 Software

6 Proposed Execution steps 17

6.1 Implemented steps for Hardware and Software
6.2 PCB Layout and Soldering

7 Result 19

8 Conclusion 21

9 Future scope 22

References 23

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 Abbreviation

● IOT: Internet of Things

● GSM: Global System for Mobile communication
● RFID: Radio Frequency Identification
● IDE:  Integrated Development Environment

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 List of Figures

Figure No. Name of Figure Page No.

Fig 4.1.1 Block Diagram 12

Fig 4.3.1 NodeMCU connection with motors and motor drivers 13

Fig 4.3.2 NodeMCU connection with soil moisture sensor 13

Fig 6.1.1 Flowchart 15

Fig 6.2.1 Polyhouse structure 15

Fig 6.2.2 Wire Connections 16

Fig 7.1 Upper view 17

Fig 7.2 servo attached to roof 17

Fig 7.3 Soil moisture sensor and water pump 18

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 List of Tables

Table Name of Table Page No.

No.
Table 2.1 Literature survey 8

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 1. INTRODUCTION

Agriculture is the broadest economic sector that has a major contribution to the development of India.
India is also concentrating on the technological aspects. When technology and agriculture are integrated
together that may yield good results. The conventional method of cultivation requires a tremendous
amount of time, and human effort and requires continuous monitoring.

There are several problems such as unpredictable weather conditions and the plants may be easily
affected by pests and diseases in the conventional method of cultivation. A polyhouse is a closed
environment where the plants are grown on a controlled platform irrespective of climate and location. The
growth and healthy production of plants under controlled favorable conditions in closed or partially
closed spaces are called Polyhouse.

The Polyhouse concept emerged to undertake adverse environmental conditions such as excess rain, high
temperature, extremely cold conditions, airflow, etc.

Polyhouse protects the crops from wind, rain, radiation, precipitation and other climatic factors.

It creates microclimate surrounding the crops that help in maximum growth regarding production and
quality.

Polyhouse also provides higher concentrations of Co2 to increase the production to maximum level;
therefore Polyhouse yields are way higher than open field cultivation.

You can grow the plants in polyhouse conditions that are otherwise impossible to cultivate in that
particular climatic zone. Eg. Growing strawberries in the plains of India.

Polyhouse crops can give you maximum profit in a minimum area under cultivation.

With a maximum level of automation, the number of manual activities, dependency on labor and overall
labor cost is reduced.

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 2. Literature Survey

Table 1.1 Literature survey

Sr Title Technology Used Proposed System Year
No
.
1  IOT based Ultrasonic Sensor, This work provides a model of a December 2016
smart GSM sim900a, RFID smart greenhouse, which helps the
Greenhouse tag and sensor, LCD farmers to carry out the work in a
for display, Arduino farm automatically without the use
IDE (Software). of much manual inspection.

2 IOT based Moisture sensor, The paper aims at making June 2016
smart Temperature Sensor agriculture smart using automation
agriculture LM35, ZigBee Module, and IoT technologies. The
Humidity sensor, highlighting features of this paper
Obstacle sensor (Ultra- includes smart GPS based remote
Sonic) controlled robot to perform tasks
like; weeding, spraying, moisture
sensing, bird and animal scaring,
keeping vigilance, etc.

3 SMART
Soil moisture sensor, Proposes a system which includes June 2022
AGRICULT
DHT-11, Ultrasonic various sensors which are
URE
Sensor, Servo motor, connected to an app via Cloud
SYSTEM
Relay, ESP8266 Node Network. The system monitors
USING IOT
MCU, ARDUINO IDE, various things like Moisture,
BLYNK Temperature and humidity and
APPLICATION even control them.

4 An Intelligent
Temperature sensors, The proposed system will allow July 8, 2020
IoT-Based
Humidity sensors increased and improved
System
productivity. The proposed
Design for
approach focuses on monitoring
Controlling
and controlling greenhouse

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 and
internal temperature, but it can be
Monitoring
extended to other kinds of
Greenhouse
properties.
Temperature

5 Automation
Soil moisture sensor, The aim of this project is to JUNE 2019
in Polyhouse
DHT-11, Ultrasonic monitor the crops by operating the
using IOT
Sensor, Servo motor, temperature, humidity, moisture.
based
Relay, ESP8266 Node Also monitor the decrease using
Technique
MCU, ARDUINO IDE, camera and receive and send
BLYNK signals using internet of things.
APPLICATION

6 IoT based
Temperature sensors, The proposed system will allow June 2018
Automated
Humidity sensors increased and improved
Greenhouse
productivity. The proposed
Monitoring
approach focuses on monitoring
System
and controlling greenhouse
internal temperature, but it can be
extended to other kinds of
properties.

7
Smart Soil moisture sensor, The main objective behind our JUNE 2019
Polyhouse DHT-11, Ultrasonic undertaking is to offer the farmer
Controlling Sensor, Servo motor, friendly automated system to
Using AI Relay, ESP8266 Node avoid the mistakes done by normal
MCU, ARDUINO IDE, farmers.
BLYNK
APPLICATION

8
Smart Temperature sensors, The proposed system will allow June 2018
Polyhouse Humidity sensors increased and improved
Controlling productivity. The proposed
Using AI approach focuses on monitoring
and controlling greenhouse

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 internal temperature, but it can be
extended to other kinds of
properties.

9  May 2018
IoT based Soil moisture sensor, The main objective behind our
Automated DHT-11, Ultrasonic undertaking is to offer the farmer
Polyhouse Sensor, Servo motor, friendly automated system to
Monitoring Relay, ESP8266 Node avoid the mistakes done by normal
and Control MCU, ARDUINO IDE, farmers.
System BLYNK
APPLICATION

10
Smart Temperature sensors, The proposed system will allow September 2019
Polyhouse Humidity sensors increased and improved
Controlling productivity. The proposed
Using AI approach focuses on monitoring
and controlling greenhouse
internal temperature, but it can be
extended to other kinds of
properties.

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 3. PROBLEM STATEMENT

There are a lot of technology-based products designed for agriculture. Take a few of them as an example:
turning on a motor through a mobile phone, knowing the power status, checking the PH value of the soil,
checking the properness of fertilizers, etc. Most of the things developed modules are not actually the
solution for farmers. These technologies just help farmers in reducing manpower, but not in improving
yields. There has to be a proper solution in helping farmers get better yields or at the least not to spoil the
crop they have in time.

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 4. Mini Project DESIGN (PRINCIPLE AND WORKING)

4.1 Block Diagram

Fig 4.1.1 Block diagram

4.2 Block Diagram Description

There are three components used: the Moisture sensor, Servo motor, and Water motor. The moisture
sensor will sense the moisture of the soil and the water motor will on/off the water flow depending upon
the moisture of the soil.
The reading from the moisture sensor is sent to the NodeMcu which further sends it to the database using
the ESP8266 Wi-fi module and then the data is visible in the mobile application.
There is also a feature where we can open and close the roofs whenever necessary. The roofs will
Open/Close with the help of a servo motor

4.3 Circuit diagram and Working

● The polyhouse is equated with the nodemcu, water motors , servo motors and soil moisture sensor.
● The nodemcu helps to connect with the database using esp8266.
● The mobile app displays results and remote control for the polyhouse.
● when user click open roof button the database get updated and nodemcu help to read the data and
execute the command on that base and open the roof of the polyhouse

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 ● When the user clicks the turn on water pump button the database gets updated and nodemcu helps
to read the data and execute the command on that base and turn on the water pump and put water
in the polyhouse.
● The nodemcu read the soil moisture reading and updates the database with it and the application
showcases the reading as LOW, MEDIUM and HIGH.

Fig 4.3.1 Nodemcu connection with motors and motor driver

Working: The easiest and inexpensive way to control dc water motors is to interface the L293D motor
driver IC with the esp8266.
It helps to control the speed and direction of the motors and even manage the power supply by it.

Fig 4.3.2 Nodemcu connection with soil moisture

Working: The Soil moisture sensor consists of two probes that allow the current to pass through the soil
and get the resistance value to measure the moisture.value.

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 5. COMPONENTS/TOOL USED
5.1 Components (Hardware)

● NodeMCU: NodeMCU is a low-cost open-source IoT platform. It initially included firmware that
runs on the ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC from Espressif Systems and hardware that was based on the ESP-
12 module.

● Water Motor: This DC 3-6 V Mini Micro Submersible Water Pump is a low-cost, small-size
Submersible Pump Motor that can be operated from a 2.5 ~ 6V power supply

● L293D motor driver: The L293D is a 16-pin Motor Driver IC which can control a set of two DC
motors simultaneously in any direction.

● Moisture Sensor: Soil moisture sensors measure or estimate the amount of water in the soil.

● Servo Motor: A servo motor is an electrical device that can push or rotate an object with great
precision.

● 9V battery: The nine-volt battery, or 9-volt battery, is an electric battery that supplies a nominal
voltage of 9 volts.

5.2 Software

● Arduino IDE: The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it
to the board. This software can be used with any Arduino board.

● Flutter: Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit.  It is used to develop cross-
platform applications for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and the web
from a single codebase.

● Database- Firebase: Firebase is a set of hosting services for any application. It offers NoSQL and
real-time hosting of databases, content, social authentication, notifications, or services, such as a
real-time communication server.

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 6. PROPOSED EXECUTIONS STEPS

6.1 Implemented Steps for hardware and software

Fig 6.1.1 Flowchart

6.2 PCB layout and soldering

Fig 6.2.1 Polyhouse Structure

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 Fig 6.2.2 Wire connections

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 7. Result

Fig 7.1 upper view

Here we can see the upper view of our model , there is nodemcu used to connect the
other components to our model

Fig 7.2 Servo attached to roof

There is a servo motor fixed on each of our roofs which will be operated by the
user according to his will (whether to open the roofs or close).

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 Fig 7.3 Soil moisture sensor and Water pump.
Here we can see there is soil moisture sensor used to sense the
resistance value to measure the moisture. Also there is a water motor connected to pump the water according to users'
needs.

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 8. Conclusion

Automation in polyhouse is highly useful for farmers as they don’t have to monitor the conditions
inside the polyhouse physically and take the required steps.

Polyhouse is a solution for the lack of agricultural lands. We can get more crops from less space in
Polyhouse farming. The system will monitor the conditions and take the respective steps required to
maintain the threshold conditions inside the polyhouse.

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 9. Future Scope

● This will help to have more quick controls and monitor over the Polyhouse. 
● All the controls in one hand with one tap or voice command to make the action or control the
Polyhouse. 
● We can add more like camera views and see the view on the phone and monitor more things. 

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 References

[1] Ravi Kishore Kodali; Vishal Jain; Sumit Karagwal, “IOT based smart Greenhouse”, IEEE,
December-2016
[2] G. Sushanth; S. Sujatha, “IOT based smart agriculture”, IEEE, June-2016
[3] Adithya Vadapalli, Swapna Peravali, Venkatarao Dadi, “A RESEARCH PAPER ON SMART
AGRICULTURE SYSTEM USING IOT”, researchgate, June-2022
[4] Ahmad F. Subahi; Kheir Eddine Bouazza, “An Intelligent IoT-Based System Design for Controlling
and Monitoring Greenhouse Temperature”, IEEE, July-2020
[5] Adesh Kumar Pandey; Minakshi Chauhan, “Automation in Polyhouse using IOT based Technique”,
IEEE, June-2019

[6] M. Danita,Blessy Mathew,Nithila Shereen,Namrata Sharon, “IoT based Automated Greenhouse

Monitoring System”, researchgate, June-2018
[7] Piyush Kulkarni, Prof. Pravin Pachorkar, Prof. Vipin Wani, “Smart Polyhouse Controlling Using AI”,
ijirt, June-2019
[8] Mahesh Kopare, Chandan Raskar, Ramesh Gavali, “Smart Polyhouse Controlling Using AI”, IJCRT,
June-2018
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System'', IJRESM, May-2018
[10] Adesh Kumar Pandey; Minakshi Chauhan, “IOT Based Smart Polyhouse System using Data
Analysis”, IEEE, September-2019

Project Video link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z0wpbmm330fiy96TrrzhYkKia0t3wtig

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