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Intelligent IoT Projects in 7 Days

You're reading from   Intelligent IoT Projects in 7 Days Build exciting projects using smart devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286429
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Simple Smart Gardening System 2. A Smart Parking System FREE CHAPTER 3. Making Your Own Vending Machine 4. A Smart Digital Advertising Dashboard 5. A Smart Speaker Machine 6. Autonomous Firefighter Robot 7. Multi-Robot Cooperation Using Swarm Intelligence 8. Essential Hardware Components

Introducing smart gardening system

A gardening system is a system used to practice growing and cultivating plants as a part of horticulture. A gardening system is usually developed and implemented as a manual operation. An automated gardening system is designed to enable us to manage gardening, including monitoring moisture, temperature, and humidity.

In general, we can build a smart gardening system based on the high-level architecture that is shown in the following figure:

The following is a list of components to build a smart gardening system:

  • Sensors: Corresponding to your case, you need sensor devices to measure the garden's environment and condition. Capturing physical objects to digital form enables us to perform computing and processing.
  • MCU board with network module: The goal of MCU is to process all data that is acquired from sensors. Most MCU boards have limited computation, so we need to send sensor data to a server for further computation. To enable us to send data, the MCU board should be attached to a network module, either Ethernet or wireless.
  • Gateway: This is optional since some MCU boards can communicate with a server directly without modifying the protocol format. If a network module has the capability to deliver data over a primitive protocol, the functioning of gateway is necessary because a gateway can translate one protocol format to another protocol format.
  • Server: This is a center computation. Most servers have high-end hardware so heavy computation can be addressed.

This architecture is an ideal condition. In a real project, you may integrate an MCU board and server in one box. For instance, you can use a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBoard. These are a mini computers that you can deploy libraries to with respect to your case.

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