Automatic Watering Plant Application Based on Android and Web Using REST Protocol

Abstract

Gardening in private lawn has become a common activity among the metropolitan citizen, and they have diverse goals of planting, ranging from home decoration, income generation or personal consumption. However, this activity may lead to a waste effort if they do not treat the plants consistently, such as forgetting to water the plant. This project provides the solution to control and monitor the activity of watering the plants and water circulation in an aquarium on a system called APA (AQUAPONIC AUTOMATIC). Utilizing the REST protocol, based on android and web services with case studies on the private lawn, this system performs a remote automatic watering by making use of the weather information and provides a decision as well as notification to the controller when it is time to water the plant. The target of this project is to create a system that monitors and controls the watering plant system. Using android and web services, it run automatically by considering weather forecast information and the implementation of the system ensures the plants to grow.