Internet of Things based Controlled Environment for the Production of Shiitake Mushroom Ntivuguruzwa Jean De La Croix African Centre of Excellence in Internet of Things College of Science and Technology University of Rwanda Kigali, Rwanda croix.njoc@gmail.com Jesslyn Theresia Philander Department of Actuarial Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya, Indonesia jesslyntheresia123@gmail.com Mukanyiligira Didacienne African Centre of Excellence in Internet of Things College of Science and Technology University of Rwanda Kigali, Rwanda siyana223@gmail.com Tohari Ahmad Department of Informatics Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya, Indonesia tohari@if.its.ac.id Sibomana Louis African Centre of Excellence in Internet of Things College of Science and Technology University of Rwanda Kigali, Rwanda lewis.sis@gmail.com Abstract— Shiitake mushroom is a crucial type of mushrooms that is mainly used for both medicinal and culinary applications. This type of mushroom that was recently introduced, is currently produced under traditional methods of mushrooms’ cultivation which affects the production outcome. Based on its important use, shiitake mushroom is needed in quantity though its production is less because the existing methods do not provide promising results in terms of harvest quantity. This paper avails an Internet of Things based method to produce Shiitake mushrooms based on technology to improve yielded quantity in short period of time by managing the environmental vital parameters in the shiitake mushroom production area. The experimental results of our method identified an improvement on the production quantity for a period of eight weeks of pilot farms observation. Keywords— Integrated Technology, Shiitake mushroom, Fuzzy logic-based control, Internet of Things (IoT). I. INTRODUCTION Currently, the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT) that made possible the various emerging technologies such as the technology of connected objects has been a trigger to the introduction of self-deciding systems. The concept of connected objects made possible various applications in different fields by introducing self-deciding systems for the sake of minimizing the human intervention in systems management [1]. IoT-based systems with ability to control themselves has been an important concept that is considered as a capital input to the development of various economic sectors [2]. Integrating technology in various agricultural species has been benefic by controlling the vital parameters of plants, resources management, harvest improvement, etc. Mushrooms present a particularity in the parameters of the growing environment compared to most other agricultural species. Mushrooms impose a medium that doesn’t expose them to temperature, humidity, and others with high variation for best harvest [3]. The need in mushrooms has increasingly raised due to their great use in the culinary and medicinal applications though the farmers don’t actually put much attention in the cultivation of this important type of agricultural specie [4]. Mushrooms have not much attracted the attention of farmers because they require a lot of manpower for monitoring and sometimes the specific types of mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms are difficult to cultivate with the actual wild mushroom cultivation in many places of the world [5]. Shiitake mushrooms are considered important types because they fit in both the culinary and medicinal applications, and this type of mushroom takes origin in Japan centuries back, and since then, shiitake mushroom growing is done on specific types of trees named shii. Shiitake mushrooms, otherwise known as lentenula edodes come in second place in the world among all the other types of mushrooms. The flavor and taste shiitake mushrooms made it the most preferred ingredient for the cuisine involving mushrooms. Moreover, shiitake mushrooms are also useful to be used for medical products manufacturing because they are used as ingredients for most drugs for respiratory diseases treatment [6]. Cultivating shiitake mushrooms consists of either cultivating on tree logs or cultivating on sawdust. Cultivating or producing shiitake mushrooms on logs started with the introduction of this type of mushroom in China, Japan, and other far East countries. Producing shiitake mushroom in the sawdust started in Europe before spreading to the other parts of the Northeast. I countries such as Ukraine, shiitake mushroom has not been practiced before though this type of mushroom has recently been introduced [7]. Reference [8] avails shiitake cultivation method that consists of using organic components in the soaking water for being used in the farm’s substrate. The results of this work proved that enriching the soaking water with organics and wheat brans and the flour of soybeans yield an improvement with the soaking water. Moreover, the addition of these organic components showed an effectiveness in farm’s components properties improvement. The results of this work proved the efficiency of their method in enriching the substrate soaking water with chemical components. Based on the experimental results of this research work, suspension of extracting the wheat brans is considered to be the best method of suspension for the sake of harvest enhancement in shiitake mushrooms, and the suspension of extracting the rice barns is identified to be the best practice in shiitake mushroom’s quality improvement. In [9] a shiitake mushroom cultivation method was proposed with a substrate made of agricultural wastes. This method was tried in different places of Turkey and was 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Distributed Systems Security (ICBDS) Pune, India. Sep 16-18, 2022 978-1-6654-2832-3/22/$31.00 ©2022 IEEE 1