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How My Android App Learned to Talk to Plants
Smart farming is no longer a futuristic idea, it’s happening now!
With the rise of IoT technology, microcontrollers and embedded devices are transforming ambitious ideas into working projects. This talk presents an IoT-enabled greenhouse system that collects environmental sensor data and turns it into real-time insights, all visualised through an Android app.
Maintaining optimal conditions for crop growth is no easy task, but by tracking key variables like soil moisture, pH, and CO₂, we lay the foundation for automation and precision farming. It’s a robust, remotely accessible system built with off-the-shelf components, a practical case study of modular Android dashboards for real-world environments.
This session will cover:
• How the system’s hardware and sensors are architected.
• The network setup and API server, routed via Cloudflare Tunnel.
• GitHub as a public data store for JSON snapshots.
• The Android app architecture for live dashboards and graphs.
• Key design decisions: caching, API fallback, and mobile UI.
• How you can build a similar system at home.
And voilà, no plant is left dehydrated!
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