Smart Mushroom Cultivation House: Engineering Development and Data Analysis

Abstract

This paper presents the engineering development of the smart mushroom cultivation house and the time-series analysis of the collected data. The cultivation house is located at the School of Agricultural Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Nan province and the experimental work has been done in June-July 2023. An automatic humidity control system, which consists of water pump, fog nozzles, water flow sensor, temperature-humidity sensor (AM2301), relay-push button board and LCD display, is developed. It is controlled by C/C++ program stored in the microcontroller board (NodeMCU ESP8266 V3). The system is specifically designed for smart mushroom cultivation. The NETPIE 2020 platform is adopted for data collection, real-time monitoring, and parameter adjustment via the web application. Temperature, humidity, pump state, and water flow volume are monitored and recorded. After this development, Japanese cone mushrooms and oyster mushrooms have successfully developed fruiting body in this cultivation house. Time-series analysis of the recorded data shows that the developed system has advantages in terms of labor, water and electrical power consumption as compared with the typical method for growing mushrooms in a cultivation house.