The proposed greenhouse system is a fully automated system that has all the measures for the functioning of a green house. The greenhouse’s main brain would be the Terasic DE10-Nano FPGA Cloud Connectivity Kit. It would be responsible for all the activities like collecting sensor data, gathering images for analysis of the growth of the plants, operate actuators and also to connect to Azure IOT cloud to send the sensor data. There would be many rows of plants in the greenhouse and each row of plants would be allotted for a specific crop type. The sensor network connected to the main board would be used to collect data like to receive sensing information, including environmental parameters and plant phenotyping data. There would various Analog Devices plug-in cards connected for collected temperature, humidity, pressure, light intensity, gas, soil moisture, pH values. All these values would be recorded using a data logger. The recorded data would be used for processing and post-data analysis. There would be over the head cameras connected to collect information on the growth of the plants using pattern recognition. All the analysis using deep learning will take place on the edge on the DE 10-Nano board. It would result in low communications costs and improved response times. The analysis results would be transmitted to the Azure IOT cloud services so as to make them available for the users through cloud dashboards and smartphone applications. There would be robotic sliding arm connected over the row of plants which would can used for various activities like seeding of the plant seeds, delivering minerals like NPK(Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Potassium) directly to the roots of the plants, analyzing the plants for diseases in them and also for the removal of weeds. The robot would be a gantry system with three degrees of freedom. The end effector of the gantry robot would be attached with types of actuators for uses like watering, nutrients delivering system. The whole farm would be inside a structure made of glass or fiber. The roofs of the greenhouse would be fitted with sun shades which can be operated on the basis of sunlight required. The structure would be fitted with ventilation fans to regulate the flow of air. The structure would help to control factors like excessive sunlight, pests and other external factors that might affect the growth of plants.

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