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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects Bringing your home to life using Raspberry Pi 3, Arduino, and ESP8266

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783283873
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shantanu Bhadoria Shantanu Bhadoria
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Ruben Oliva Ramos Ruben Oliva Ramos
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Automated Gardening System

We all love having a nice garden in our house, whether it's a tiny herb garden in a pot, a kitchen garden in your backyard, or a bed of flowers to welcome guests at the entrance. However, plants are living things and they require constant care and if you forget about them long enough they wither away. If you are like me in any way, you might have the same problem of killing your plants when you missed watering them due to forgetfulness or when you left home for a vacation.

In this chapter, we will create an automated gardening system that keeps an eye on your plant health by monitoring the soil humidity levels and watering your plants whenever the soil humidity level goes too low. This system will avoid the pitfall of a schedule-based gardening system which might end up killing your plants by over-watering them on rainy days.

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