Plant Observatory
of Weather Adaptability for Resilience
P.O.W.A.R. is a machine that can replicate different climatic conditions like sunlight times, temperature and pluviometry from future climate forecasts, to analyze which are the optimal conditions to grow each plant in the future or a certain place.
This will work as a plant observatory, in which 3 different climate simulations will be compared, changing only one variable at a time, to detect which plant grows better than the other and with this, it will help farmers generate a database to optimize what they will grow in the future.
The future of P.O.W.A.R. is that it will learn by itself through machine learning and image recognition, feeding a global database that helps analyze plants growing in different weathers.
The variables that can be changed inside are:
- Temperature (Cold and Hot)
- Humidity / Rain (Amount of Water)
- Sunlight (Amount of Sunlight and Times of Light)
In this project they created their own board using an Arduino Nano and a bluetooth usb, some sensors and actuators, but he even designed tha housing for everything, to take care of a plant.
This projects shows how to turn your weather data into a really nice graphic interface that you can check from the web.
In this project they webcrawl data from the Open Weather Map API, and show it into a LCD screen.
This is Felipe Santos Fab Academy 2019 artistic project that simulates some weather conditions inside a box.
4 - Transparent acrylic boards 40x70 cm
6 - 40x20 Pywood Boards (top bottom/box)
3 - 40x40 Plywood Boards (Bottom/Top electronics box)
1 - Plastic Organizer Box
1 - 6mm nylon/silicon tube hose (3mt)
2 - 3D Printed Hinges (+ bolts and knotts)
1 - 3D Printed U Shaped Door Handle (+ bolts and knotts)
1 - Moisture Capacitive Sensor
1 - Temperature Sensor
1 - DC Water Pump
1 - Growing Lights for plant (To Be Defined)
2 - 120x120 mm Fan
1 - LCD Screen
Power Source
Relays
- 1 Base (600mm x 600mm).
- 2 Lateral (600mm x 1200mm).
- 2 front and rear (590mm x 1200mm).
- 1 Base (620mm x 620mm).
- 2 Laterales (600mm x 200mm).
- 2 frontales y traseros (620mm x 200mm).
- 1 Base (620mm x 620mm).
- 2 Laterales (600mm x 200mm).
- 2 frontales y traseros (620mm x 200mm).
The top and the bottom part are exactly the same, but what changes is the possition and orientation.
- 1 Base (590mm x 590mm).
It´s an acrylic panel with laser cutted holes of 5mm, with a 30 mm separation between them for the water to pass by, into the bottom tank (plastic organizer cube).
NOTE:
Depending of the plastic organizer box that I get, I couls use the top part of it as filter, by drilling or laser cutting some holes, deppending on the matterial.
This would be the system that pumps tha water from the tank up, and drain it again above the plant. I was thinking that I could either use the tubes to generate a net in the upper part whit some holes for the wather to flow, or replicate Felipe Santos System, but I don´t really need them to be randomly assorted, but I would like to have them coverrong all other or with equal spreading. Another option could be to use a "3D printed shower head", which could make the same effect of spreading.
This ones could be made with a 6mm Nylon or Silicon tube hose, with some wholes in the upper part.
Electronics
Design and Mill the Development board
(in case I don´t use a NodeMCU).
Connect and test inputs and outputs.
Write the Code.
Machine Box
Design and laser cut the Acrylics
Design and Laser cut the Plywood.
3D Print the Handle, Hinges, bolts and knots.
Networking
Connect the machine to a weather Api where it could take the information to do the simulations, or to a website where you could decide which conditions you want to have.
1. A total of 6 plants will be cultivated, which will be divided into 3 groups of 2 for each set of variables (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2).
2. Each group of plants A and B will have an increase and decrease in one of the variables versus the group of control plants C. (A +, B-, C =)
3. 2 plants are used for each group, to rule out that the results are by chance and the results of the 2 will be averaged to give the result of the group.
4. The height, amount of leaves, size of bigger leaves, amount of fruits and size of fruits will be measured every 3 days.
5. Each test cycle will depend on the harvest times of each plant.
6. The process will be started again by changing a second variable in A and B, but keeping control C the same as the previous experiment.
7. With 9 experiments of 3 groups, the effect of the different variables on plants can be interpreted.
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