Smart Pot: With the accompanying app, you tell the Pot what kind of plant you have (from a menu of 8,000 varieties). Sensors measure water content of the soil, temperature, light levels, and fertilizer level of the soil (by measuring conductivity). A Parrot smart pot is heading for global release this year at a price yet to be revealed. French consumer tech product company Parrot, unveiled to announce two interesting sensor-powered products: the Parrot Pot and the Parrot H2O -- two devices that will water plants. The Pot, which is a smart plant pot, and the H2O, a device that is inserted into not-so-smart plant pots, use a combination of light, moisture and other measurements to analyze what plants need to grow. Whenever the gadgets sense plants need to be irrigated, they release the exact amount of water necessary. If plants need more light or fertilizer, alerts are fired off through free Flower Power applications available for mobile devices powered by Apple, Android or Windows software. Read more at:
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:05:53 +0000