Designing control of IoT-based farming robot

Farming Robot is one of the applications of smart farming 4.0 based on artificial intelligence which is the mainstay of the Ministry of Agriculture in the current digital era. Smart farming utilizes the Internet of Things (IoT) to increase the quality and quantity of production in the agricultural industry. Farmbot is a cheaper solution than using industrial agricultural equipment on the market. Through the web application, operators can control and monitor the planting process on the planting medium. Farming robot is operated by communicating ESP8266 with Blynk via WiFi network. Based on the experimental results, once the farmbot is activated, then the planting process runs automatically from the starting point to the end zone. There were 16 planting points that have a distance of 30,000 step rotations on the X-axis planting points, 10,000 step rotations on the Y-axis, and 5,000 step rotations on the Z-axis with a total planting duration of 7 minutes. When the planting processwas complete than the initial watering using blynk was performed. All processes occurred on the planting medium were monitored by an ESP32Cam whose results can be seen at the IP address entered on the web. Farmbot monitoring utilized IoT and Blynk, which contains monitoring of temperature, air humidity and soil moisture.