FPGA-Based real time monitoring and control system for greenhouse

Abstract

This report describes the design and implementation of an SoPC-based real time monitoring and control system for a Greenhouse, using the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), to allow manual or automatic control of the environmental parameters inside the greenhouse, in order to suit the requirements of the plants growing inside it. For this purpose, an Android application has been created to allow the user to see the status of the greenhouse, and to manually control the actuators or to enter set points for the environmental parameters in the automatic mode. The prototype of the project consists of four main parts. The on-chip hardware, where the SoPC-based system is implemented using Nios II soft processor, on-chip memory, I/O peripherals and custom VHDL blocks. The off-chip hardware including actuators, driving units and data acquisition unit. The smartphone for the android application and a PC. The model was synthesized using Quartus II and targeted at Cyclone-II FPGA, the EP2C35.