DEVELOPMENTOFANIOTANDBLOCKCHAIN INTEGRATED VERTICALFARMINGSYSTEM

Abstract

The demand for sustainable and efficient procedures to produce safe food is increasing due to ongoing global challenges like population growth, resource deficiency, climate change, andglobal warming. Thusvertical farming, apioneeremergingtechnology, mayplayavital role in addressing such challenges in agriculture. Vertical farming systems need continuous monitoring of the plants and farm environment. There are scopes to improve efficiency, reduce human effort, and ensure proper yield. This research aims to explore the parameters required to monitor a vertical farm and to propose an IoT and blockchain based automated and efficient food production system. The IoT devices allow real time monitoring and con trolling of essential parameters like temperature, moisture, light, nutrient levels, and alike, while the Blockchain technology provides a transparent and immutable ledger of the records regarding crop growth and resource consumption of the farm, enhancing the framework’s traceability. A prototypical system of this framework was developed and simulated in the lab environment to evaluate its performance. By generating the required control instructions to maintain the ideal environment, the prototypical system proved to be effective, efficient, and reliable.