Controllable LED for Aquascape Environmental Treatment based on IoT Application
Daniel Patricko Hutabarat*, Rudy Susanto, Jonathan Lukas

Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering
Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia, 11480
*Corresponding author: dhutabarat[at]binus.edu

Abstract

Aquascaping is an activity carried out in an aquarium to produce a beautiful work of art by arranging aquatic plants, rocks, driftwood, and other supporting components. Plants inside the aquarium need light to carry out photosynthesis. However, the light needed has certain parameters and quantities for each type of plants. If the light used is less than the needs of the plants, the plants will not grow up properly, however if the light given exceeds the ability of plants to absorb, algae will start to grow. In this study, LED devices that can emit the light needed by the plants will be developed. The light emitted by this device will be adjusted to the types of plants grown and the light around the aquarium environment. In this study, the system is developed based on IoT application so that the number of LED devices used in the system can be easily adjusted, operated and monitored by using the application developed. This will be used by users to choose the intensity of light that will be emitted by the device according to the type of plants grown in the aquarium. The LED device developed in this research is part of the research on the aquascape environmental treatment devices. The device developed has been successful in maintaining the light emitted according to the light needed by the plants with the accuracy is above 92.3% and maximum standard deviation of 2.32.

Keywords: Aquascape, Adaptive aquascape lighting, IoT Application

Topic: Computer Science