Indoor Gardening Project

Inspiration

When I heard about Intel Hacks, the submission date was just one and half week away and I immediately wanted to create something with Genuino101 since it was in our laboratory. So I made this project, which was always in my mind: INDOOR GARDENING. I am still creating a sensor communication model for agricultural applications but it is still important for individuls to access some organic food.

It is just a prototyped concept and it uses Arduino 101 to tell: GROW YOUR OWN FOOD NOW!

What it does

It really simplifies the gardening jobs. You can change lights and water your plant while you are sitting on your couch. It creates an interface from your Android smartphone and control your garden. It has automatic mode so when you travel around the world you don't need to worry about your garden.

How we built it

Android part:

It is based from the BLE example of Android Demos. I added the interaction part with the Genuino101.
It can switch on/off lights with light characteristics.
Water the plant gradually. (It has 3 water levels.)
It can switch to a automatic mode to grow automatically your plant.

Arduino part:

It uses BLE to connect with Android.
It reads the soil humidity data with YL-69 soil humidity sensor.
It turn on/off lights with Android app command.
It pumps up motor with Android app command.

Challenges we ran into

We had limited time and also some other jobs to do. So the first challange was resisting sleeping. We tried to give the concept and there is so much TO DOs in our mind

Accomplishments that we're proud of

To begin this project and create something that we will use in our lifes is our first source to proud.

What we learned

We really learned detailly how indoor gardening works, what we must do next !

What's next for Indoor Gardening Project

A better LED system: we will change the light with the plant's optimum photosynthesis wavelength.
A better Watering system: usinng the humid sensor data and temperature data creating an algorithm for efficient watering
Wind shield: If you want to put your garden in balcony you need to protect it from wind so with Genuino101's gyro we can detect wind and protect our garden.

-For Android part, we want to create a guide for the beginners of indoor gardening.