<div dir="ltr"><div>That sounds like an interesting project. Where's the allotment? I'd be interested in getting involved. <br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 March 2016 at 10:14, Ishaq <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ishaqx@gmail.com" target="_blank">ishaqx@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I have a project I want to get input from you guys on. I want to develop an environment monitoring and watering system for an allotment. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I already have solar power in the allotment and want to use that to power the rest of the project. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The solution will consist of multiple sensor units, a controller and actuators to control the watering depending on various sensor inputs. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The sensor units will be powered by small solar cells (I want to avoid using batteries or running power lines from a centralised source). </p>
<p dir="ltr">The sensor unit will consist of a temperature and humidity sensor, a soil moisture sensor, a light sensor and a low power zigbee wireless transmitter. I am thinking of using an Arduino based microcontroller to control all the components on the sensor unit. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The brains will consist of a zigbee hub Attached to a Raspberry pi. The pi will use the data from the sensors and use an algorithm to switch on relays that will control the flow of water through soaker pipes laid out on the ground. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The watering system will be gravity fed/powered from rain water tanks. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Further, I want to use the data from the sensors to provide environment for reporting through a website, and possibly a camera to monitor and report visual activity. </p>
<p dir="ltr">So that's what I have in mind. I've done some research on the components required, but it'd be great to get feedback from anyone that's done somthing similar before. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm also interested in hearing about other folks experiences of IOT Tech. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 3 Mar 2016 21:52, "Alain Williams" <<a href="mailto:addw@phcomp.co.uk" target="_blank">addw@phcomp.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 05:40:50PM +0000, Ishaq wrote:<br>
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> 4. IOT / Home automation<br>
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I have long said that to bring us together we need a project that we can<br>
collaborate on - IOT is sufficiently new, exciting & unknown that it might work.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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