Overview / Usage

Each plant has it’s own characteristics concerning need for water, need for nitrate etc. Therefore the experienced “house gardener” follows each individual plant’s need and supplies water and fertilizer etc. as needed. Mini Garden Grow supports the user in becoming an experienced house gardener.

The Mini Garden Grow system reads moisture, light, and temperature sensors and based on that information controls the irrigation. Via web interface the user has access to actual and historical data and can choose between automatic and manual control.

The central control of the system is implemented via the Intel Edison Board which via wifi reads data from each plant and starts/stops irrigation of the individual plant via the Nodemcu board. The Edison board functions as well as server for the web page.

This Mini Garden Grow system may be extended by a module for fertilizing and a module for extended user interaction (e.g. more historical data, photos, sharing opportunity, analyses of growth).

Mini Garden Grow is an extension to existing irrigation systems for house gardening, typically drip-based systems like those produced by Gardenia and Claber.

Instructables http://www.instructables.com/id/Meteo-Serra-Intel-Edison/