Plant-N-Go

LED activated
website updates

Forgetting about your plants when going on a trip can be detrimental the plants health. We wanted to build some thing that could help owners be worry free while on vacation while still being conscious of energy consumption.

It is an automatic sensor system that detects soil moisture, light level, air humidity, and room temperature via an Arduino. Using various sensors, it is activated to water and provide light for your plants while you’re travelling.

Using an Arduino Uno as the building block, we had a temperature/moisture sensor and light sensor as inputs. The Arduino recorded the data and sent it as output to the water pump and LED when necessary so that plant is provided with water and light. The stats are then updated on the LCD display for in house use, and a website that users can access while away.

One challenge we ran into was integrating the serial communications interface between the Arduino and the host server for the data. We fixed this by directly obtaining the data from the serial port.

Building a static website to handle the dynamic data and getting the sensors to be properly calibrated are our best accomplishments.

We learned how to integrate hardware with web programming, something that none of us had ever done.

The next steps Plant-N-Go is adding a database to the back end so that the sensor data can be stored over time to the point of trends being predicted.

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UGAHacks 8
- Winner UGAHacks Hardware Hack

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I worked on the the front end aspects of the project and ensured that everything connected properly to the backend.

Sarah Sileshi
I worked on the hardware for the project. I was in charge of connecting the sensors to the Arduino and having them display the data onto the LCD screen. I had a fun time working my team, I am very happy to work with them again on a project

Noah Samples
I worked on calibrating the sensors, communication between the Arduino and server computer, and the README with the part research and GPIO Pinout diagram.

Sidharth Chaudhary
I worked on the front-end and back-end of the website that gathered the data from the Arduino and displayed it on the website. It was very challenging to work with the Arduino and getting the data to be shown on the charts because it was my first time working with an Arduino and the javascript chart library. Overall, I had a pleasurable experience with my team, and I am so happy that I learned and got exposure to new technology.

Charles Lam