SMART PLANT ENVIRONMENT MONITORING SYSTEM [DEVICE] (Plantarum V1.0)

Kalana Hettiarachchi
2 min readMar 29, 2020

This plant environment monitor device can easily attach to any plant pot and shows the user about their plant’s environment data (humidity, temperature, light saturation, rain rate).

You can monitor your plant anywhere in the world and make sure it stays alive in a way that was never done before. *(I wish to come up with the V1.1 with the integration of data mining principals)

Here I used NodeMCU as the data processor, with sensors i collected the data and through specific libraries, I converted the raw analog values into proper parameters. and using HTTP GET requests I passed the values to a PHP file which is stored in a cloud host and this PHP file captures and writes these values to a MySQL database which is on the same host. using a web interface I visualized these data in Charts.

you can access the web interface at http://35.244.50.5/plantarum and its live updating when the device is on.

Building process. sorry for messy wiring XD

Used equipment:

  • NodeMCU
  • Analog to digital converter (ADC)
  • Temperature/humidity sensor
  • Light dependant resistor (LDR)
  • Rainmeter sensor
  • Soil moisture sensor
  • Potentiometer
  • Some LED s

UPDATE: The host is disabled due to insufficient credit on my AWS account!

#IoT #plantarum #WiFi #ESP8266

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