Gardening with cloud computing

As one of the latest products in a fast-growing internet era, the Bitponics system is a "personal gardening assistant" designed for you to easily enjoy gardening with planting techniques. aquatic. The system connects the garden to the cloud, allowing gardeners to monitor their crops and control the system even when they are away.

Bitponics is a project created in Brooklyn, New York (USA) and designed to improve urban gardening. Similar to the 'Plant City Project' idea but with user-friendly and human-friendly kits, Bitponics can be integrated into existing hydroponics systems to help gardeners take care of plants. better mortar.

The Bitponics system started planning individual crops. Gardeners can design themselves or based on the existing plan of the online gardening community of Bitponics. After the plan has been developed, the Bitponics sensor will monitor the humidity and air temperature, pH, water temperature and light to help the plant grow properly. The sensor data is routed through Bitponics base stations and transferred to cloud computing via wifi. Users can access data on any web browser by logging in from their control panel.

When the development environment of the tree deviates from the optimal conditions in the development plan, the Bitponics system will notify the user with an explanation and a repair plan. It can also automatically adjust the settings of devices that connect directly to two electrical sockets, such as increasing light or adding water. In addition, garden owners can control devices plugged into Bitponics base stations on the web. Because it is impossible to remotely control all garden elements, the Bitponics system has a mechanism to remind users to perform manual operations such as filling the reservoir. Bitponics's optimal development plan is based on the information and experience of the majority, so the system will grow stronger when there are more users. Hardware is open source and Bitponics encourages programmers to improve it and share software with the community.

Last year Bitponics launched a successful campaign and is now planning to have the system available in the market this year. The hardware will cost $ 499, and the basic web service with automatic daily data logging plus free storage for 3 months. The web service upgrade to 'serious gardener' costs 9 USD per month, including unlimited storage, email notifications when the garden needs attention, and automatic data logging every 15 minutes. The system also has an account for "business gardeners".