Develop an automated monitoring system that allows the creation of an efficient hydroponic ecosystem, which increases the production of lettuce per square meter

Autor: Adriana Isela Peña-Montes De Oca, Pablo Esteban Salazar-Márquez, Edgardo Emanuel González-Del Castillo, Ana Bertha López-Laguna
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: Journal-Agrarian and Natural Resource Economics. :29-35
ISSN: 2524-2091
DOI: 10.35429/janre.2021.8.5.29.35
Popis: The agricultural production methods of the last decades, have stood out for the use of the spaces, leaving aside even the land, mediating the greenhouses; in order to protect crops from climate variations, pests, raising their quality through better physicochemical characteristics and longer shelf life. The purpose of this work is to develop an automated system by means of materials such as sensors and microcontrollers capable of controlling physicochemical variables in a greenhouse, in order to provide the concentrations of nutrients, for the creation of an efficient hydroponic ecosystem, and standardized for an increase to production, in the cultivation of Romain variety lettuce. It is important to point out that within the hydroponic system, the Romain lettuce variety is harvested, obtaining larger products with an approximate weight of 1200 to 1500 g per piece, compared to those grown by the traditional method whose weights range between 1100 to 1300 g per piece, with a shelf life of 8 days in refrigeration.
Databáze: OpenAIRE