Engineers from Damascus University design a wireless network to control greenhouses

A number of electronics and communications engineers at the University of Damascus designed and implemented an overlapping wireless network for remote monitoring and control of the irrigation and lighting system for crops within protected agricultural houses.

The network’s goal is to keep pace with technological development, such as artificial intelligence systems and modern communications systems, and to achieve the greatest benefit from them so as to control and monitor the entire agricultural projects’ networks remotely. The goal of the project is to program and implement greenhouses that contain a set of monitoring sensors via connection to the Internet from anywhere in the world so that the farmer can monitor soil and climate indicators and water levels for all agricultural homes and control fans, lighting, heating and irrigation systems in order to obtain the best productivity and save effort.

This system can be developed by linking it to a software system that collects and stores data to become capable of predicting the climate and intelligently controlling lighting and water sprinklers based on a database that is pre-trained according to the stored statistical data.

The project, titled “Connecting greenhouses to a wireless mesh network” participated in the sixth exhibition of distinguished student graduation and research projects on the fifth of November last year, which was held by the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Damascus.

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