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Abstract— Shiitake mushroom is a crucial type of sometimes the specific types of mushrooms such as shiitake
mushrooms that is mainly used for both medicinal and mushrooms are difficult to cultivate with the actual wild
culinary applications. This type of mushroom that was recently mushroom cultivation in many places of the world [5].
introduced, is currently produced under traditional methods of Shiitake mushrooms are considered important types because
mushrooms’ cultivation which affects the production outcome. they fit in both the culinary and medicinal applications, and
Based on its important use, shiitake mushroom is needed in this type of mushroom takes origin in Japan centuries back,
quantity though its production is less because the existing and since then, shiitake mushroom growing is done on
methods do not provide promising results in terms of harvest specific types of trees named shii. Shiitake mushrooms,
quantity. This paper avails an Internet of Things based method
otherwise known as lentenula edodes come in second place
to produce Shiitake mushrooms based on technology to
improve yielded quantity in short period of time by managing
in the world among all the other types of mushrooms. The
the environmental vital parameters in the shiitake mushroom flavor and taste shiitake mushrooms made it the most
production area. The experimental results of our method preferred ingredient for the cuisine involving mushrooms.
identified an improvement on the production quantity for a Moreover, shiitake mushrooms are also useful to be used for
period of eight weeks of pilot farms observation. medical products manufacturing because they are used as
ingredients for most drugs for respiratory diseases treatment
Keywords— Integrated Technology, Shiitake mushroom, [6]. Cultivating shiitake mushrooms consists of either
Fuzzy logic-based control, Internet of Things (IoT). cultivating on tree logs or cultivating on sawdust. Cultivating
or producing shiitake mushrooms on logs started with the
I. INTRODUCTION introduction of this type of mushroom in China, Japan, and
Currently, the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT) other far East countries. Producing shiitake mushroom in the
that made possible the various emerging technologies such as sawdust started in Europe before spreading to the other parts
the technology of connected objects has been a trigger to the of the Northeast. I countries such as Ukraine, shiitake
introduction of self-deciding systems. The concept of mushroom has not been practiced before though this type of
connected objects made possible various applications in mushroom has recently been introduced [7].
different fields by introducing self-deciding systems for the Reference [8] avails shiitake cultivation method that
sake of minimizing the human intervention in systems consists of using organic components in the soaking water
management [1]. IoT-based systems with ability to control for being used in the farm’s substrate. The results of this
themselves has been an important concept that is considered work proved that enriching the soaking water with organics
as a capital input to the development of various economic and wheat brans and the flour of soybeans yield an
sectors [2]. Integrating technology in various agricultural improvement with the soaking water. Moreover, the addition
species has been benefic by controlling the vital parameters of these organic components showed an effectiveness in
of plants, resources management, harvest improvement, etc. farm’s components properties improvement. The results of
Mushrooms present a particularity in the parameters of the this work proved the efficiency of their method in enriching
growing environment compared to most other agricultural the substrate soaking water with chemical components.
species. Mushrooms impose a medium that doesn’t expose Based on the experimental results of this research work,
them to temperature, humidity, and others with high suspension of extracting the wheat brans is considered to be
variation for best harvest [3]. the best method of suspension for the sake of harvest
The need in mushrooms has increasingly raised due to enhancement in shiitake mushrooms, and the suspension of
their great use in the culinary and medicinal applications extracting the rice barns is identified to be the best practice in
though the farmers don’t actually put much attention in the shiitake mushroom’s quality improvement.
cultivation of this important type of agricultural specie [4]. In [9] a shiitake mushroom cultivation method was
Mushrooms have not much attracted the attention of farmers proposed with a substrate made of agricultural wastes. This
because they require a lot of manpower for monitoring and method was tried in different places of Turkey and was
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the maize residue used in our experiments. One farm to 30°C for three days and ventilated them sufficiently. After
contains the shiitake mushrooms that are followed up with a the five days, we remove the covering materials as the seeds
fixed time watering system that is used traditionally, and start to raise.
another farm is controlled using the proposed fuzzy logic
system. For both our farms, we control as main parameters A. Experiment within the farm with traditional method
the soil moisture, air humidity in the farm, temperature in the (Farm 1)
farm as well as the temperature of the substrate. Our The first farm of our experiment implements the
proposed system is designed with three main units namely a traditional method with twenty seed bags. Our farm is
unit with sensors for data collection, microcontroller unit, controlled using the manual system where will visit the farm
and the unit in charge of actuation. The sensors unit consists every twelve hours. The water pump is set to watering the
of three types of sensors namely a temperature sensor, a farm with ten liters by opening the pump twice during the
humidity sensor, and soil moisture sensor. day light and once during the night. In fact, our farm in this
first system is controlled with the current time interval
This paper applies fuzzy logic to cultivate shiitake watering system and the control in manually done by the
mushrooms by managing the vital parameters of the shiitake farmer.
farm on real-time basis. The vital parameters of focus in our
research are the temperature for the substrate, and the air in The bags are holed to create the places where the fruiting
the farm, the moisture in the substrate and the humidity in bodies of the mushrooms will raise from. In addition to using
the mushroom farm. We analyze the data from sensors by water to maintain the stability in humidity and moisture, we
benchmarking them with the standard data about desired use heuristic method to estimate the level of the temperature
ranges for each vital parameter pre-recorded. The working in the farm.
principle of this system is such that the actuators’ activities
B. Experiment within the farm with proposed the
are triggered if the data got from the sensor are out of the
desired range for effective growth of the shiitake mushroom. proposed method (Farm 2)
The self-decision in our technology-based farm is proposed This farm is made of twenty seed bags. The farm’s vital
to be achieved through Fuzzy Logic (FL) which is an parameters are controlled with IoT using machine learning
artificial intelligence technique that enables human decision- technique. Fig.1. illustrates a conceptual framework of the
making imitation by machine. method implemented in this second farm. The conceptual
This rest of this paper is made of 3 following sections: framework includes three main units notably the unit 1 for
Second section encompasses the methodology of our input, unit 2 for decision-making, and unit 3 for actuation.
research work, third section encompasses the experimental The input unit includes the data collected form a temperature
results and discussions, and the last section encompasses the sensor placed in the substrate, a temperature sensor placed on
conclusion of our research. the roof of the farm, a soil moisture sensor placed in the
substrate, and a humidity sensor placed on the roof of the
II. METHODOLOGY
farm. The decision-making unit consists of benchmarking the
The methodological approach of our work is mainly input data to the pre-recorded data of the central database to
based on implementing two pilot shiitake mushroom farms trigger the activity of the actuating unit. The action unit
with the same components for the substrates of the two
consists of responding to the request from the decision-
farms. Within the first farm, shiitake mushroom is produced
under traditional metho based on fixed time intervals water making unit. The standard temperature range is such that the
spray in the farm and with the second farm the shiitake temperature is greater or equal to 25°C, the standard
mushroom is produced with fuzzy logic-based approach to humidity is such that the humidity is less or equal to 80%.
control the farm. The substrate for both the farms are made The standard substrate’s moisture is to being less or equal to
with the husks, cobs, and stalks of maize. We consider ten 30%. The output unit consists of a couple of features based
seed bags per each pilot farm. on data recording specifically saving the farm’s data to
Maize residues are chosen for making the substrates in ThingSpeak and saving the harvest-based data.
our experiment because they are among the most available 1) Farm control with fuzzy logic: We follow these fuzzy
due to the fact that maize themselves are ones of the most rules to control the variation of the vital parameters in the
crops available in many places. Our substrate is composed by farm.
sawdust of 40 kilograms mixed with 0.9% lime. We moisten a) Rules to control the farm’s air temperature: We
our mixture until 70%, we ferment it for a month before follow three rules to control the farm’s temperature based on
putting it in bags. After this, we cut the maize husks and the temperature got from the substrate.
stalks int parts of approximately 3 centimeters and then crush
the maize cobs into a range of 0.2 to 1.2 centimeters length. x Rule 1: If the temperature is less than 20°C, then
Then we proceed by soaking our mixture for ten hours, and mist water on the roof.
then add the rice brans in small quantity, and homogeneously x Rule 2: If temperature value is greater than 20°C
mix again all the components. We pack the got homogeneous and less or equal to 25°C, then no mist.
mixture in 40 propylene bags and use polyvinyl chloride
pipes for spouts stiffening and then sterilize the bags at one x Rule 3: If temperature is less than 20°C, then
hundred degrees Celsius for around five hours. The next step check the humidity value.
is now to add fifty grams of shiitake mushroom spawn into b) Rules to control the humidity: We follow these two
forty bags and cover all the bags in sterilized cotton wool and rules to control the farm’s humidity based on the data about
paper. We incubated the bags at an admissible for this type
humidity got from the substrate.
of mushrooms which ranges from 20 degrees Celsius (20°C)
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Unit 1 2) Block diagram: The block diagram of the proposed
Data Unit 2 system is illustrated in Fig. 2. The input data in our proposed
collection Decision- system a collected from a humidity sensor, temperature
Unit 3 sensors, and soil moisture sensor. After getting the data from
from the making base actuation sensors, there is a need to process those data and based on
sensors on the
threshold fuzzy rules set in the system and the standard ranges for vital
data parameters values, the actuators namely the mist sprayer and
the water pump are set to be in activity or not. The water
pump comes in as an actuator to water the farm to reestablish
the substrate’s moisture or humidity, and the mist sprayer
Fig. 1. Conceptual Framework comes in to function as an actuator to spray water on the
farm’s roof to reestablish the farm’s temperature or humidity.
To record the farm’s data for further analysis, all the
system’s data are sent to the cloud every 2 hours.
C. Data analysis
We analyze the experimental data in this research by
applying two steps. The first step consists of sending all the
farm’s data to ThingSpeak for further analysis. In addition to
that, as the main objective of our research is to improve the
harvest in shiitake mushrooms, we need to collect the data
about the harvest got from both the farms for analysis. We
analyze the data related to the harvest in our farms using a
parameter of central tendency of descriptive statistics
specifically the mode.
III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Our experiment was conducted for five months from
preparing the seed bags, making the substrates, and planting
the seed bags and getting the harvest to recording the data
related to the harvest for analysis. Firstly, in three months,
we prepared the seed bags and the substrates for both the
experimental farms. The first and second made farms consist
Fig. 2. The block diagram of the system of 10 seed bags per each with the same components of the
substrate. The difference between the farms is based on the
way the farms are controlled. The first farm is controlled
x Rule 4: If the farm’s humidity is less than to 80 manually by the farmer, and the second farm is controlled by
Per cent, then mist the substrate. technology based on fuzzy logic. Secondly, in two months of
x Rule 5: If the farm’s humidity greater or equal our experiment were used to record the data about the farms’
to 80 per cent, then no mist. harvest for analysis. Table I, identifies the harvest in our
farms recorded in 8 weeks.
c) Rules to control the temperature of the substrate:
The following three rules are used to manage the substrate’s Basing on the data in the Table I, the maximum harvest
temperature got from the temperature sensor. got is around five kilograms yielded from the second farm.
Looking at the harvests from both farms, it is identified that
x Rule 6: If the substrate’s temperature is greater
than 25°C, then water the substrate. TABLE I. COMPARISON OF THE HARVEST BETWEEN THE FARM 1 AND
FARM 2.
x Rule 7: If the substrate’s temperature is greater
or equal to 15°C, and less than 22°C, then no Week Farm 1 (in kilograms) Farm 2 (in kilograms)
substrate’s watering. I 0 0
x Rule 8: If the substrate’s temperature is less than II 0 0,3
15°C, and the substrate’s humidity is in the
III
normal range, then no watering. 0,27 0,98
IV 1,21 2,93
d) Rules to control the moisture in the substrate: We
follow the two rules below to control moisture in the V
1,96 4,07
substrate
VI
x Rule 9: If substrate’s moisture is less than 30%, 2,48 4,67
then water the substrate. VII
3,79 4,95
x Rule 10: If substrate’s moisture is greater or VIII
4,01 5,37
equal to 30%, then no watering.
Total 13,72 23,27
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the harvest got from the first farm is always less than the For future works, we plan to use fuzzy logic to control
harvest of the harvest in the second farm. The total harvest the quality of harvest in the shiitake mushroom production
yielded from the first farm within the eight weeks of our by monitoring the harvest storing medium.
farm’s observation is 13.72 kilograms while the harvest
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