Estufa automatizada para cultivo de fungos comestíveis em ambiente residencial

Abstract

The growing healthier lifestyle search in the past few years has LED people to seek out new possibility for foods in their daily diets. The mushrooms are one example of them, such as shiitake, champignon and lion’s mane. Since their health benefits were already attested, their consumptions have been growing year by year. Even Brazilians, who do not have tradition on consume such kind of food, are increasing the demand for this product. However, their selling prices are still one of the major drawbacks for growing mushrooms in Brazil. Other problem that should be address in order to growing fungi are our tropical climate, which is mostly inhospitable to most of the mushrooms, interfering even more in them consume daily here in Brazil. Then, this work proposes a possibility for the cultivation of these fungi in a residential environment as a way of making this food more accessible, even in places with a warmer climate and lower humidity levels for ideally cultivation of fungi. The proposed cultivation systems consist of an automated greenhouse built inside a refrigerator with humidity, temperature, ventilation and lighting control environment. The greenhouse is connected to IoT server for logging and tracking real-time process variables. An application for Android®, was also developed, connected to this IoT server, capable of monitoring the process and allowing interventions on system setpoints variables. So, in the final part of this work is presented the expected results of the greenhouse project using the information gathered from the IoT platform that is used to monitor the system status, so that it is possible to verify if the developed proposed systems satisfy the desired working conditions.