Propuesta de un sistema para optimizar el riego en invernaderos de plantas heterogéneas usando WNS y algoritmos evolutivos

In this paper, it is proposed an irrigation control system able to use in an efficient way the water in greenhouses of heterogeneous plants without sacrificing the good condition of them, to accomplish this, firstly it is proposed a clustering of plants based on the irrigation needs and secondly implementation of a genetic algorithm that establishes the optimum watering times and waiting between each watering which permit to minimize the amount of water used in each irrigation, minimizing watering time and maximizing the waiting times between each watering. Different species of plants were clustered based on their behavior in the soil moisture under specific conditions, for which a feature vector representing such behavior was created. The system allows efficient use of the water used in greenhouses 131 Research in Computing Science 113 (2016) pp. 131–145; rec. 2016-03-08; acc. 2016-05-18