![]() This system was circulating around 104 k gallons of nutrient solution monthly however, only 8–10 L water was consumed by the system. ![]() ![]() The system was consuming 120.59 and 230.59 kWh respectively without and with air conditioning control during peak summer, which is equivalent to the system running cost of 13.26 and 25.36 Qatari Riyal (QAR) respectively. The functionality of the overall system was confirmed by evaluating the response from individual system components and monitoring them in the IoT platform. The designed system is capable of maintaining healthy growing parameters for the plants with minimal input from the user. An open internet of things (IoT) platform was used to store and display the system parameters and graphical interface for remote access. A microcontroller was working as a brain of the system, which communicates with different types of sensors to control all the system parameters and to minimize the human intervention. The design of the system was made after studying different types of vertical hydroponic systems in terms of price, power consumption and suitability to be built as an indoor automated system. The designed system is capable to grow common type of crops that can be used as a food source inside homes without the need of large space. The aim of this work is to design and construct an indoor automatic vertical hydroponic system that does not depend on the outside climate. However, those plants are not suitable as a food source. A few species of plants have the capability to grow in such a climate. Growing plants in the gulf region can be challenging as it is mostly desert, and the climate is dry.
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