A Greenhouse Environment Monitoring Platform with Characteristic of Video Surveillance

This paper designed a greenhouse environment monitoring platform with characteristic of video surveillance by making full advantages of embedded Linux system and ARM11 chip. Based on embedded Linux and Qt/Embedded, an on-site greenhouse environment monitoring software was developed. It provided a friendly human-machine interface, combined with a variety of network communication technology, analysed the collected data intelligently and finally created optimal environment for crop growth by running Multiple factor coordinated control algorithm automatically. Leveraging the camera and the built-in multi-format codec, a video surveillance system was developed to monitor the crop environment and growth in greenhouse. Thereby, our platform integrated an environment monitoring system and a video surveillance system. The experimental results show that the platform runs stably in parallel, data transmission is highly reliable, the digitalization and visualization of greenhouse is achieved efficiently. The platform has wide application value.