Developing an Environment-based Plant Watering Device Prototype Through a Web Application in Conjunction with The Internet of Things

Abstract

The objectives of this research are: 1) to design and develop an environment-based plant watering device prototype through a web application in conjunction with the internet of things, and 2) to determine the effectiveness of the development of an environment-based plant watering device prototype through a web application in conjunction with the internet of things. The research tools consisted of experimental tool and data collecting tool. Experimental tool is an environment-based plant watering device prototype through a web application in conjunction with the internet of things developed with C++, Visual Studio Code, HTML, and PHP. Data collecting tool is system efficiency evaluation form. Research methodology can be classified into 5 steps: 1) problem and requirement analysis, 2) system design, 3) system development, 4) system testing, and 5) system evaluation by three purposively selected experts. The findings from this research are: 1) environment-based plant watering device prototype through a web application in conjunction with the internet of things can be performed well, and 2) the efficiency of the proposed system evaluated by three experts is in highest level (x =4.66, S.D.=0.44).