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Mozilla Festival proposals for 2016
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Go green with IoT #753

Open mozfest-bot opened 8 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 8 years ago

[ ID ] f75c1872-dd1a-41c3-8e02-6aa1aa49d03c

[ Submitter's Name ] João Trevizoli Esteves [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] lab804

[ Space ] science [ Secondary Space ] cities

[ Format ] learning-lab, hands-on

Description

This session is to make people capable to manage their own garden or kitchen garden through connected devices using IoT technology. The plants are an awesome life form, they are the main source of biological energy to the mankind by transforming the simplest elements such as the water, carbon, nitrogen and sunlight into food. Despite the aparent simplicity to this process be efficent it needs several tweaks, if the soil where the plant lays is way beyond its field capacity and wilting point, or the plant is dieing or water is being thrown away, if there is not enough sunlight the plant can't reproduce and complete their life cycle. With this project you will be able to understand and manage this variables to take full control of your garden as seamless as possible through an connected device.

Agenda

In this workshop we are going to present an automated garden made with C++, Python, Arduino and Raspberry Pi that introduces the participants to the best practices of agrometeorology and to the concept of crop modelling. The participants will be able to see and manage the impact the climate variables into an agriculture system in the scale of a garden by your handheld device.

Participants

I will divide the participants in groups of 5 people and ask to some of them to control and play with the garden sensors and components letting the others monitor through their smartphones whats happening with the plant/soil/water system. Then we are going to talk and discuss about how this enviroment works and how can we improve it, what is the importance of monitoring and know where your food or plant is at and numerically show what is the outcome of good and bad practices to your garden and our enviroment. Finally I am going to let a conversation open to the participants interact and discuss how can we use IOT devices to improve the food production on larger scale, such as a small farm, Industry of agribusiness and the countryside.

Outcome

thornet commented 8 years ago

tentative fit for garden

joaoTrevizoli commented 8 years ago

It would be awesome sharing our experiment and make people's kitchen garden more efficient

joaoTrevizoli commented 8 years ago

Hello @arlissc! I've saw that my session was accepted, what is the next step for participating in the event?

Thank You!

dricupello commented 8 years ago

Hi guys! This is awesome! I am a facilitator at this session and I don't need a ticket because I'm also a volunteer of the participation team. Joao will travel in his own expenses and he will take his partner in this project, Murilo (@murilobsd) with him. I would like to give my ticket, as a co-facilitator, to him.

joaoTrevizoli commented 8 years ago

Thank you @arlissc for your email! We are very excited to be part of the event this year!!