A fuzzy inference model for IoT SHIITAKE Mushroom farm monitoring and control

Abstract

Mushrooms are considered as one of the main sources of both medicinal and culinary products. Growing mushrooms by watering have been taken into consideration with attention as an efficient way of producing the desired harvest in them. Shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes) is the most important culinary medicinal mushroom which ranks at number two in terms of total mushroom production in the world only next to button mushroom. Shiitake is beneficial for soothing bronchial inflammation and regulating urine incontinence as well as for reducing chronic high cholesterol, therefore shiitake mushrooms need to be scientifically increased in the harvest. However, the production in mushrooms is less because of traditional methods such as manual greenhouse for mushrooms, mushrooms’ cultivation on tree logs, fixed time-based watering method, that are implemented with manual approaches, and thus present a gap in preciseness to manage vital parameters of the mushrooms. Internet of things (IoT) based smart farming system is an agricultural solution that is built for monitoring the crops growing medium. This involves IoT-based technologies to enable farmers to optimize the usage of agricultural resources such as water, electricity, fertilizers, and others to enhance crop productivity. Within the previous researches, the use of sensors in mushrooms cultivation has not sufficiently provided optimized harvest. Thus, there is still a need to improve the existing methods of mushrooms cultivation by using a real-time surveillance system of the mushrooms’ farm vital needs quantity variation to support in decision making. This research aims at introducing an automated system with intelligence based on fuzzy logic to maintain mushrooms substrate suitable for shiitake mushrooms and to save the quantity of water used in mushroom farming. Within this research, by using fuzzy logic we avail an IoT-based system for shiitake mushrooms farming that keeps the farm’s air humidity, substrate moisture, and humidity to a wanted level for the sake of improved harvest in shiitake mushrooms