helloplant
A beautiful professional smart plant sensor
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Peter Honeder

helloplant - A beautiful professional smart plant sensor

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helloplant is professional plant sensor which sends notifications to your smart phone directly via Bluetooth. An optional remote hub provides integration with smart home systems and allows you to monitor your plants while you are travelling. It's unique design allows to measure soil moisture and soil temperature through the rugged plastic enclosure

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Yarik
Very cool idea. I'm your client
Peter Honeder
Maker
@yarik_chillom thanks for your support!
Robert Melkonyan
Congrats with funding. Love your project
Peter Honeder
Maker
@robert_melkonyan thanks for the positive feedback!
Peter Honeder
Maker
Hi! Helloplant is currently funding on Kickstarter. It's a professional smart plant sensor monitoring your plants. Through an optional remote hub you will know when to send your friends watering your plants while you are travelling. It monitors soil moisture, air and soil temperature and ambient light. Feel free to ask me anything about the project! -Peter
Tyler Fyke
@peter_honeder Neat product! Not sure if this is already in the works, but it would also be cool if you could have it automatically notify your caretaker, along with any special instructions you want to include. Good luck!
Dun
Unfortunately, XIAOMI already did it, and they did pretty well. https://www.aliexpress.com/store...
Hans van de Bruggen
@huangdun UI is in Mandarin, and there are quite a few people who don't speak it. That said, helloplant's advantage here only exists until/unless Xiaomi translates their product.
Dun
@verbiate they already have the option to choose different languages since a few months ago. Flower Care by εŒ—δΊ¬θŠ±θŠ±θ‰θ‰η§‘ζŠ€ζœ‰ι™ε…¬εΈ https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/...
Peter Honeder
Maker
@verbiate @huangdun the largest difference is, that we support notifications directly over BLE. Additionally we also provide a soil temperature reading, which isn't influenced by the sunlight and provides better approximation for plant positioning. And when you are not at home or want to integrate with other smart home systems, we offer a remote hub to access the data over network.
Mariya Zhbanko
I love great inventions like that
Peter Honeder
Maker
@tatyana_romanova thanks for your feedback!
Joshua Dance
Very cool. How does it measure the soil moisture? If you run electricity between 2 probes for too long it can kind of cook the plants roots. :)
Peter Honeder
Maker
@joshdance Hi Joshua! Our sensor measures soil moisture capacitively through the plastic hull of the sensor. The plant is only exposed to a small very low power electric field for a few milliseconds, there will be no damaging current flowing through the plants roots.
Nina De la Cruz
LOVE IT. Good luck with the project. I never heard of XIAOMI product, but your video inspires me to try gardening again. A used-to-be serial plant killer.