How To Set Up Smart Indoor Garden With Internet Of Things (IoT)

How about forming a smart and clean indoor garden with minimum human supervision? Sounds like impossible? Not anymore! Now with smart garden monitoring system, you can form a beautiful indoor garden without spending much time and money. The system leverages the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) to modify your gardening process to a smarter one. 
How is this system different than traditional gardening process? It will continuously monitor the moisture content and light intensity of the environment, upon requirement, it will also send you a notification regarding watering and other requirements. 

Sounds Great! How The System Work After all?

The basic concept of the smart garden is to operate things via IoT embedded sensors. These sensors can monitor the soil humidity and temperature, water level etc. These sensors can successfully sense whether your plants are overwatered or under watered based on which you can take necessary actions. One of the best parts of this automated system is it can keep on watering your plants even in your absence. 
Another worth mentioning feature of the system is all the data collected by the device send to a cloud-based processing unit, which combines the data to analyse whether the present water level is appropriate for your plant. 

If the moisture level of the garden falls down below the recommended level, the system sends a command to the automatic water sprinkler which will sprinkle water on the target plant(s). In the traditional gardening system, you always need someone to keep a strict eye on the plant condition of your garden. 
With smart gardening unit, you will receive continuous alerts about the action being taken and required to take. If you are a travel person have to spend days away from home, you can easily grow a beautiful garden with the smart farming unit who will take care of all your plants' needs. 
 

What do you have to do? 

If you wish to set up the smart garden in your home you can buy IoT enabled smart gardening kits. You need to set up the system on your own. Its smart garden sensors will suggest the best plants for your garden by analysing the immediate environment. 
Sometimes we wonder why your plant is not growing even after providing necessary nutrients. With the smart garden kit, you don't have to worry about these things because there is no place of uncertainty. 
For precision planting, these smart garden stations have: 

• Wi-Fi enabled water sprinklers
• Robotic lawnmowers 
• Automated tools 
• Solar power bulbs

All of them will help automate your garden process where you can just sit back and relax or focus on other things. 
In the US, DIY smart garden projects are whopping $41 billion as informed as IBISWorld. You need to assemble the necessary hardware using the codes from GitHub. 
Many households have started using the device with which you can enjoy fresh vegetables grown in your own garden. Various IoT gardening devices are solar-powered, which means you don't need to charge them using your electricity. They will preserve the necessary energy required for performing throughout the day. So, getting a beautiful garden is much easier than you think. 
 

Vertical Smart Garden

If you have space constraints cannot adjust space for a garden you can opt for IoT enabled vertical smart garden option. You can grow plants along your walls with the help of hydroponic technique with will allow the plants to grow without soil. Only water solution is required for the proper growth of your plants. This water solution will contain every necessary nutrient required for plant growth. The plant roots must be dipped in the nutrient solution. 
The vertical garden units are generally wall mounted which use IoT enabled micro-controllers which analyse the moisture, nutrients, and other necessary factors and send a notification to the owner about it. For the smooth operation of the system, you need a strong internet connection. You can also buy the smart gardening unit with built-in lighting, which will help you in maintaining optimum temperature and light for your plant growth. 

Why this technology?

Smart IoT gardening system was originally introduced to improve large scale gardening, which requires huge manpower and vulnerable to insecticides. Sometimes due to adverse weather condition, lots of crop batches ruins. These smart devices use IoT enabled advanced farming techniques which will send notifications to the end-user regarding various parameters. It not only cost you less but also requires much lesser manpower. Moreover, the overall maintenance cost will be reduced.
Internet of Things (IoT) will run the future with ease. A high-speed internet connection and various other advanced technologies like AI (Artificial Intelligence) together with IoT, make it unmatchable. Now every sector is using IoT embedded sensors to deliver smooth services. 

Living in high rise building has its own pros and cons, but when it comes to gardening, many have to compromise due to space issue. These smart IoT gardening kit now enable everyone to take pleasure of gardening. Very soon, these techniques will be incorporated with large scale farming so that farmers face lesser issues to produce various crops. 

Every country is now investing in IoT for various services including manufacture, health, transport, education and of course farming. Every day more investors are coming forward who are intended to invest in IoT techniques. Days are not far when everything will operate through IoT devices.