[Watford] LUG Meeting today?

[Alan Secker]

Nice project.

We would need to gather the spec for each device before anything else.
How much info have you gathered so far.

Regards

Alan


On 04/03/16 10:14, Ishaq wrote:
> 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.
>
> I already have solar power in the allotment and want to use that to
> power the rest of the project.
>
> The solution will consist of multiple  sensor units, a controller and
> actuators to control the watering depending on various sensor inputs.
>
> The sensor units will be powered by small solar cells (I want to avoid
> using batteries or running power lines from a centralised source).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
 >
> The watering system will be gravity fed/powered from rain water tanks.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I'm also interested in hearing about other folks experiences of IOT Tech.
>
> On 3 Mar 2016 21:52, "Alain Williams" <addw at phcomp.co.uk
> <mailto:addw at phcomp.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 05:40:50PM +0000, Ishaq wrote:
>
>      > 4. IOT / Home automation
>
>     I have long said that to bring us together we need a project that we can
>     collaborate on - IOT is sufficiently new, exciting & unknown that it
>     might work.
>
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