Research And Design Of Intelligent Plant Incubators Based On Embedded Linux

With the continuous development of information technology,modern agriculture is now going to replace the traditional agriculture and the application of information technology in agricultural production is becoming more and more widely.Artificial plants rooms(or artificial plants incubators)is one of the typical representatives of it.Artificial plants rooms(or artificial plants incubators)usually have the function of collecting environment variables like temperature,humidity,illuminance,carbon dioxide concentration,soil ph,etc,and require human intervention or adjust automatically if needed.In the tide of information technology development,the development of embedded system is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable technology.An embedded system is usually for a specific kind of users for specific requirements.It can be regarded as a special computer system with the characteristics of using hardware that can be cut,stable processing,small volume and low power consumption.Over the past few years,embedded technology has been widely used in network communication,real-time monitoring,industrial automation,consumer electronics and other fields.This paper designed an intelligent plant incubator based on embedded technology with ARM and Linux.The incubator has two functional modules: data collection module and control module.The main hardwares of the system consisted of samsung S3C2440,which was selected to be the main controller,SDRAM,NandFlash,USB interface and sensors that were used for acquisition of the temperature,humidity,illuminance,the concentration of carbon dioxide and a camera for capturing real-time images in the incubator.It also carried the corresponding environment adjusting devices to adjust the climatic conditions.Software design was mainly divided into two parts: low level softwares and application softwares.Low level softwares included embedded Linux system and the necessary drivers.Application softwares were mainly used for processing the data collection,storage,control,display,etc.