Overview
An orchid plantation under the Plant Genetic Conservation Project, initiated by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, is located in Mae Rim district, Chiang Mai. The plantation hosts a wide variety of rare Thai orchids growing densely on tree branches, which made it difficult for staff to identify species, locate specific plants, and manage records using handwritten paper tags. This project developed a database system with three components: an IoT weather station for collecting environmental data such as temperature, humidity, and wind, a handheld RFID-based tagging tool to replace the fragile paper labels, and a central database for organizing and retrieving plant records.
Authors
Parot Ratnapinda, Watcharin Sarachai, Pitchayanida Khumwichai
Publication
Presented at the 2020 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE), published by IEEE.
RFID tags similar to those used to replace fragile handwritten paper labels in the orchid plantation.