The aim of this project is to provide a device which would assist farmers in carrying out complex everyday tasks involved in Polyhouse Farming, assist them in monitoring, irrigating, fertilizing, planning and maintaining the crops, as well as providing assistance and backbone support in case of emergency situations.

The system includes multiple modules of EC-pH-Temp-Humidity measurement placed throughout the Polyhouse and a mobile PDA to which it communicates the environment information. This Mobile PDA software is aimed at helping the farmers with less experience and no professional agriculture education to undertake complex hi-tech crop production, 'plan, plant and cultivate' high profit oriented crops inside a Polyhouse, which provides controlled environment to assure good quality and productivity of the crop.

Project involved exploring Polyhouse plantation process, problems faced by farmers, conceptualizing system for assistance, conceptualizing individual elements of the system, designing detailed interface and interaction of the independent devices, styling and form design.

The interface is designed in regional (here MARATHI) language. It is designed after thoroughly studying the education, literacy and understanding level of farmers. The assistance system is designed in such a way that it not only tell farmers the problem but also tells them about actual actions to be taken in terms of the tools to be used, the quantitative information, actual steps to be taken to solve the problem.

Thus, the PROCESSED information is given to farmers, which is ready to use and farmers don't have to apply their skills to modify the information for using. It is easy to learn, intuitive and based on INVERTED PYRAMID approach for interface design. The functions are easy to find, navigate, operate and information is pushed upward in visual hierarchy, so that it is accessed within lowest number of keystrokes. Prioritization of functions in terms of frequency of use & emergency is done. Use of appropriate visual language and optimum use of screen size is done in order to accumulate all the information in the small display without clutter and complexity.

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