The objective of this project is to help people who love farming and gardening to monitor their plants at home. Lots of gardeners do not know whether their plants have been supplied with sufficient water, light, and fertilizer for a healthy growth. Every day, they just guessing the amount of water their plants need, without knowing either is sufficient or not. In order to overcome this, most of the gardener will be overwatering their plants, this will make waste of water. Make thing more worst is when they are busy with their job or have to go for a vacation.

This project provides a solution by developing a smart vase that can monitor conditions of the plants and ensure sufficient water supplied. This product monitor conditions of the plants by using sensors that embedded in the smart vase. Three sensors are included in the developed smart vase: DHT 11 sensor that will monitor surrounding temperature and humidity, LDR sensor module that will monitor light intensity surrounding the plants and lastly soil moisture sensor that will measure the moisture of the soil of the smart vase.

The most interesting part of this product is the capability to ensure sufficient amount of water required by the plants and avoid water being wasted. When the soil humidity is low, the smart vase will be watering the plant. However, when the soil humidity is high, the smart vase will stop watering the plant. In order to achieve it, an intelligent watering mechanism is designed and included in the product. Because of this, the smart vase includes a water pump and a reservoir in its design.  All the sensors and the water pump are connected to Arduino Uno, which is selected as the microcontroller. This product also has wifi capability that allows sensor reading to be pushed to the Favoriot platform. The smart vase will be used with an android app for the gardener to keep track of their plant’s condition and assess accordingly.

To evaluate and optimise the performance of the smart vase, few experimental works will be conducted and feedback from the Agriculture Department will be taken into consideration during the design. We believe that this smart vase will be in every house helping the gardener taking care of their loved plants.

[NOTE: This project is being done by UTHM, our FAVORIOT’s University’s collaborator. Article by: Muhammad Hilmi Husaini bin Mohd Nizam]

The vital signs play an important role in the daily routine of medical check-up in the hospital. The basic routine is called vital signs check with consists of 5 main elements which are body temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, blood pressure and pain score. Usually, these vital sign readings are recorded by nurses or carers. They will do the routine check daily depend on the criticality of patient’s condition that needs to be monitored. The more critical, the more frequent reading is recorded. Typically, the nurses must record the vital sign reading for each patient once for 4 – 6 hours.

Nurses are divided into a cubicle, where the ratio of nurses and patients sometimes reaching a value of 1:10 or even 1:20. Make thing worst, the nurses are working in shift. During a changing of the shift, it is very important the documents are kept and pass to the next nurses on duty. If the information or documents were interpreted wrongly, normally case such medication error could happen. Because of this, the project aims to develop a vital sign monitoring system based on IoT, The objective is to reduce the nurse’s load of work besides helping in improving the efficiency of measuring the vital signs reading.

This system consists of wearable devices, FAVORIOT platform, mobile apps or website as shown in Figure 2. The wearable device is attached to the sensor to measures three type of vital signs which are pulse rate, body temperature, and respiration rate. Arduino UNO is selected as the microcontroller. Each patient must wear this wearable device, which is really comfortable and convenient where the patient can move freely around in the hospital rather than just lying on his or her bed. This will release some tension to the patient being warded in the hospital for a long period of time and reduce the possibility of high blood pressure to occur. The wearable device can also be used on children, which they can play around in the hospital at the same time can be monitored.

The vital sign readings will be pushed to the FAVORIOT platform. In order to allow this, ESP 8266 (Wifi shield) will be used to establish a connection to the Internet. The collected data at the FAVORIOT will be viewed on a developed website and mobile apps. In any emergency cases such as patients may suddenly lose their pulse, breathing rate and temperature rises, the system will alert and notify the nurses as soon as possible

[NOTE: This project is being done by UTHM, our FAVORIOT’s University’s collaborator. Name: Nor Izzudin Bin Nor Ariffin and Supervisor: Dr. Ansar bin Jamil]

In Malaysia, the flood is one of the frequent disasters that occurred in the monsoon season especially at the end of each year. The flood monitoring and detection system are important to minimize flood damage costs because the cost of damaged caused by the floods is correlated closely with the period of warning given before the flood event occurred. Because of this, the purpose of this project is to design and develop a flood monitoring and detection system using the Internet of Thing (IoT).

The main objective of the proposed system is to provide information on the current water level in the particular area, such as river and drain. When, the water level increase beyond the critical level, the system sends the alert notification to the user. The system will give alert for three-level that are Standby level (Green LED), Evacuate level (Yellow LED) and Danger level (Red LED). The system consists of an ultrasonic sensor, Arduino UNO as the system microcontroller, WiFi or GSM module, and FAVORIOT platform.  WiFi module is used to established connection to the internet. The WEMOS-D1R2 must be set and connected to the WiFi. The current water level is pushed to the FAVORIOT platform and can be viewed in a graph. Figure 1 shows the system design of the proposed system with WiFi module. As an alternative, for an area without a WiFi connection, GSM module can be integrated with the system, and the current water level can be sent to the user via SMS.

The design of the system with GSM module is shown in Figure 2.

[NOTE: This project is being done by UTHM, our FAVORIOT’s University’s collaborator. Article was written by Muhamad Nabil Asyraf Bin Ghazali and Supervisor: Dr. Ansar bin Jamil]