I am reading a lot about the new wave of sensor based technology coming to the market. Does anyone in this board have experience working with sensors, and building monitoring solutions?
The project involves automated watering system for my trees. Ideally the sensor(s) will support soil moisture, ph, temperature, humidity, irrigation water flow controls. I have found some sensors at adafruit and wirelesstag, but the cost per sensor is 25+. Are there any resources where I can buy/build sensor around a couple of dollars or less, to keep my project economically feasible?
I am new to all this, and the project is part of my ‘something new’ category for the year. I know this can only happen in movies – place sensors and once activated will display as dots on a control panel :-). Any directions/resources to facilitate this project implementation is greatly appreciated.
I hadn’t considered automated irrigation earlier …. (though wished for a simpler task when dragging hoses to the various trees/shrubs). This also meant I missed watering the trees when necessary. The few cold nights couple of weeks ago was brutal. Waiting for Spring to see which of the trees survived.
Having invested a significant dollars on the trees, I want to ensure the trees get adequate attention so they establish and grow well.
Thanks for edyn link. It looks interesting, and I think it will work well for the vegetable garden. Have to check if it will work for the trees where I am starting to use 3-4” of mulch.
This is definitely a time consuming project for me, in the sense I need to read up on every aspect.
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