Smart Greenhouse Design for Strawberry Cultivation in Pandanrejo, Batu City

Abstrak

Batu City, which is famous as a tourist city, is not only an urban area. Most
of the Batu city area is a rural area, especially the northern area which is
included in the Bumiaji sub-district. As a tourist area, Batu City has a large
enough economic potential to improve the welfare of its people. Most of the
people of Batu city who live in rural areas are fruit and vegetable farmers.
Pandanrejo village in Bumiaji sub-district is an example of a strawberryproducing village in Batu city. Various problems are faced by strawberry
farmers in Pandanrejo village. One of them is related to the uncertain
weather conditions in their village. The ITS Physics department team
provides solutions related to these weather conditions with an innovative
climate conditioning technology that can be applied in agriculture. This
technology is a smart greenhouse in which there is control of environmental
conditions for strawberry plants. With the application of smart greenhouse
technology, it is expected to increase the productivity of strawberries and the
welfare of the farming community of Pandanrejo village, Batu city.