Estiyanti Ekawati
Hydroponic is one of the methods of farming by providing nutrition through water supply that is flowed on absorption media such as grilled husk or rockwool as a growing medium of plants. The advantages of hydroponic systems are high roductivity on relatively narrow land area, faster harvesting time, nutritional settings are easier, reduce the use of pesticides and labor. This productivity is strongly influenced by nutritional levels of the soil media. Before the PPM implementation, hydroponic farmers agrinology controlled the hydroponic nutrient variables manually every three days. Therefore, up to the subsequent replacement period of nutritional fluid, a decrease in nutritional quality is significant and affects the level of plant fertility. To overcome this problem, the dedication program to the community was built a prototype controlling system, EC, and nutritional temperature on hydroponic plant. This prototype is equipped with software for monitoring and controlling remotely using the cloud data system, so farmers can oversee the land even though it is far from the location. This system is also built to facilitate the recording of daily data that can be downloaded to help hydroponic farmers model the hydroponic system and develop decision-making strategies. The implementation of the development of the device and the installation of this hydroponic module was carried out in partnership with the hydroponic pilot garden in Cicalengka, the ITB Technology Faculty (FTI ITB) and Instrumentation Technology Center and ITB Automation (PTIO ITB).
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Agrinology hydroponic farmers control the hydroponic nutritional variables manually every three days. Therefore, up to the subsequent replacement period of nutritional fluid, a decrease in nutritional quality is significant and affects the level of plant fertility.