Um protótipo de sistema de monitoramento microcontrolado para auxílio no estudo da Atriplex nummularia em regiões do semiárido cearense

Abstract

Agriculture is one of the main sources of food production, however, its benefits go beyond food, causing an huge impact at various areas such as the development of pharmaceutical drugs, energy sources and production of raw materials. Brazil is leading when it comes to agricultural production, hereupon, there is an increasing need for technologies that assist to enlarge the production, as well as in varied aspects of development such as, for example, in the precise control over the conditions of plantations, and in the optimization of the space destined for cultivation. From this scenario, this work presents the prototype of a microcontrolled plantation monitoring system, with the possibility of recognizing several types of sensors. The system developed also allows to record information in a database, providing a graphical interface for interaction and visualization of the data by the user. The initial proposal was based on plantations of Atriplex nummularia, a plant of Australian biome that has been introduced in regions of the Brazilian semiarid, including the hinterlands regions in Ceará, which suffers from a scarcity of hydric resources. Even at this context, the system was designed to have generic characteristics and can easily adpapt to monitor other species of interest.