I- Introduction

• What is greenhouses and why to use them?

Buildings designed to provide special conditions of temperature and humidity for the production of tender or
out-of-season plants.

• Greenhouses development over time

- Ordinary brick or wood shelters
- Controlled environment
- Automated Tasks

• Monitoring and Controlling Agent for Greenhouses

II. Abilities and Capabilities
II.1 Maximizing Quantity and Quality
• Continuous monitoring of environmental variables allows grower to
gain a better understanding of how each factor influences growth and
yield.
• In previous generations, a single cabled measurement point was
sufficient.
• No means of controlling environmental variables.
• Using Wireless Networking instead of cabled systems.
II.2 Wireless Networking
• Used for gathering data and communication
between centralized control and agents in
the green house.
• WSN installation is fast, inexpensive, and
simple when compared to cabled systems.
• Sensor nodes are tiny and light, easily
relocated and can even be hung up on the
plant’s branch.
II.3 Multiagent System configuration
• Agents correspond to one of the physical
system key parameters.
• Agents are divided into two categories:
• Environmental agents (temperature,
humidity, CO2 concentration, Sun light).
• Soil condition agents (pH, electrical
conductivity, salinity, water available, soil
temperature and nutrient).
• When agent join the “Discussion Area” :
• Share info about current state.
• Notify other agents of any steps must
be taken to fulfil the objectives.
• An optimization algorithm estimates
possible consequences from several
scenarios
• Optimal resolution is found about the
optimal ventilation rate.
• According to this result, a final decision
is taken.
• This decision can have either the form of
some actuator command or of some
adaptation of a setpoint value.
 III- Rationality of the Agent
• What is Rationality?
• Four Pillars of Rationality?
- Performance Measures
- Prior Knowledge of the Environment
- Actions
- Percept Sequence to date
 IV- PEAS (Performance measure
Environment Actuator Sensor)
As well known, PEAS is an acronym for: Performance measure, Environment, Actuator and
Sensor; which are the four main characteristics that every agent should have in case to be
efficient on its task.
 IV.1 Performance measure
Monitoring and controlling agent are responsible to keep plants in your greenhouse alive and
healthy and that requires the best possible growing environment.
 IV.2 Environment
The monitoring and controlling agent environment are mainly in greenhouse.
 IV.3 Actuator
There are different kind of devices that consumes energy to perform some mechanical or
electrical action for controlling the greenhouse:
● motors
● coolers
● pumps for watering
● fogging machines
● sprayers.
● artificial light
● buzzer
 IV.4 Sensor
A sensor is any tool that measures some chemical
or physical characteristics and alters the results
into an electrical signal collected by the main automation
computer and then this data can be easily read
and interpreted by the grower

Sensaphone
Sentinel
 V- Environment Type of the Agent
• Fully Observable
• Cooperative Multiagent
• Deterministic
• Sequential
• Dynamic
• Continuous
• Known
Agent type of the monitoring and controlling
agent
• The agent type is utility based agent
• The monitoring and controlling system aim to produce the best yield
in the best conditions considering the quality of the yield not only the
conditions of the production but also how it would affect the other
variables which are in best conditions would lead to produce quality
and production quantity with the minimum possible cost in resources
and in worst may cause the crop damage