Forget Me Not Plant Watering System

Inspiration

Household plants have been linked to a number of health benefits, but can also be a cause of stress if you struggle to keep them alive. Plants can't verbally communicate to tell you when they need water, so it can be easy to over-water them... or completely forget about them until it's too late. And what about when you go on vacation? Or that office plant that nobody claims responsibility for that gets watered five times in one week and then left for months without attention...

What it does

In steps the Forget Me Not plant watering system. The Forget Me Not plant watering system can be used in two ways: an active reminder to water your plant or an automatic watering system. Simply set the device to the preferred moisture level of the plant and let Forget Me Not take care of the rest. Forget Me Not will monitor the moisture level of the soil and can send you notifications when your plant needs to be watered. If you are planning to be away from your plant for an extended period of time, simply attach the water reservoir system and Forget Me Not will water your plant for you and send you a notification when the water reservoir needs to be refilled.

How I built it

Challenges I ran into

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

What I learned

What's next for Forget Me Not Plant Watering Device

Submitted to

IoTHackDay 2017
- Winner Crowd Favorite

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Before hackday, I help planning and acquiring materials. I worked on our control dashboard, integrate the GUI elements with backend codes to display live data. However, I ran into problem from using REST api and get data from Adafruit IO to plot the data live, so 10 minutes before time’s up, I created a set of dummy data to show the graph to our audience. In this hackday, I learned how to use ProgressiveBar JS, Node JS, and Electron platform to build the app. This was also my first time colloborate with someone on GitHub to create a working application, so it was a little frustrating at first when I have no prior experience working with GitHub through terminal. Thanks Priscilla for helping me a lot!

Kiet Tran
the project was interesting to me because it is something i have looked into in the past in both the homeowner and the agricultural applications.

when i signed up to be on the team i had certain ideas as to where the project would go and when i got to the hackathon i discovered the vision was different.
i worked with the other team members to craft the project toward a market friendly product that would be appealing from a finished product point of view.
as we worked toward the end product i helped to keep the goal in focus and helped out as the team figured out what should be done in initial phase and where we could go down the road as we progressed if taken to market.

great team. talented partners.
i hope it goes forward

tim jones
hardware/software integration: gathering data from sensors, creating code protocol to send data-driven messages to the web & phone, integrating services into seamless user-friendly interface.

jazzij
Tali Neidenfeuhr
Priscilla

Updates

tim jones posted an update — Oct 28, 2017 05:55 PM EDT

i was involved in seeing that the end product was what the market wanted rather than what the coders could do. i have looked into this product for a couple of years and when i saw that this team had the project in place for the weekend i came in and have been delighted to work toward a finished product we may want to take to market. excellent team

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tim jones posted an update — Oct 28, 2017 01:05 PM EDT

went from system to tell you when the plant needs watering to the system that can water your plant also

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Tali Neidenfeuhr started this project — Oct 05, 2017 06:32 PM EDT

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