Shane’s IOT Greenhouse project

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Shane’s IOT Greenhouse project
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Table of Contents
1. Title........................................................................................................................................2
2. Rationale................................................................................................................................2
2.1 Problem domain...............................................................................................................2
2.2 Purpose and justification..................................................................................................2
3. Supervisor Approval..............................................................................................................2
4. Research Questions................................................................................................................3
5. Conceptual or theoretical framework.....................................................................................3
6.Methodology...........................................................................................................................4
6.1 Analysis of sources of information..................................................................................4
6.2 Research and system development methods....................................................................4
6.3 Data collection or system design methods.......................................................................5
6.4 Ethical issues....................................................................................................................5
6.5 Compliance requirements.................................................................................................5
7. Project plan.............................................................................................................................6
7.1 Deliverable.......................................................................................................................6
7.2 Work breakdown structure...............................................................................................7
7.3 Risk analysis.....................................................................................................................7
7.4 Duration............................................................................................................................9
7.5 Gantt chart......................................................................................................................10
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................11

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1. Title
The title of the project is “Shane’s IOT Greenhouse project
2. Rationale
2.1 Problem domain
It is found that in Australia, the farmers utilize manual method including hand
weeding as well as utilization of hand tools for farming which creates number of issues
including problems in weed seedlings, challenges in covering large scale area as well as more
consumption of time. Therefore, it is very much necessary for the Australian farmers to adapt
IOT based Greenhouse project. However, the famers are facing number of challenges in
adapting IoT due to quality as well as because of lack of support in utilizing all the device
and because of security challenges.
2.2 Purpose and justification
It is found that the farmers of Australia have a major concern about the security as
well as privacy due to large scale of dissemination in IOT based greenhouse project. In order
to resolve the problem, it is very much necessary to utilize blockchain that helps in allowing
the development of distributed digital ledger of transaction which is generally shared among
different nodes of IoT. Thus, it is very much necessary to develop lightweight blockchain
based IoT architecture for the greenhouse farms for providing proper security as well as
privacy.
3. Supervisor Approval
It is found that before the development of the lightweight blockchain based IoT
architecture for the greenhouse farms, it is very much necessary to get approval from the
supervisors of the project. It is found that without approval, the project managers will face

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number of challenges and issues and thus after getting approval, it is the responsibility of the
project manager to initiate with the work of the project.
4. Research Questions
The research questions are generally elaborated below:
 What are main issues and challenges while adapting IOT in farming?
 What are the advantages of adapting the IOT systems?
 Why country like Australia should adapt the IOT systems?
5. Conceptual or theoretical framework
According to Arshad et al. (2018), the emerging technology of greenhouse in the
agricultural fields is utilizing IoT in order to monitor as well as for automate the entire
process of farming. It is found that the technology of IoT helps the farmers in order to carry
out the entire work plan within a farm without the utilization of manual inspection. On the
other hand, it is stated by Kadam et al. (2018) that the use of IoT in greenhouse farms creates
major concern related to privacy as well as security due to large scale dissemination of the
entire network. Thus, it is very much necessary to develop lightweight black chain based IoT
architecture for the greenhouses farms for giving proper security as well as privacy. It is
found that IoT devices in the greenhouses generally helps in acting as a blockchain that is
generally managed centrally for optimizing the consumption of energy.
It is found that IoT based greenhouse farming is considered to be quite advnatgeous
due to number of reasons which are generally elaborated below:
Precision farming: Precision farming is considered as one of the significant process
that assists in making the entire procedure of faming much more accurate as well as