Final Project Proposal

The Purpose of The Project

As the world needs to breathe, more green could make it much better. And in order to keep our plant healthy we need to look after it. But don't we all forget to water our plants? When was the last time I watered it? Mmm, How much water does it need? or we even travel for a couple of days and there's no one else around to look after the poor planty! :( THE WORLD COULD BE IN DANGER!!

This Project will be great for people who wants to grow plants in their homes without worrying about watering it or being a beginner in planting.

Our hero in this project will be THE POT... A while ago I bought a small internal plant which I could put on my desk. And as a product designer I had many problems with the pot, starting from how it looks like to the problem that it didn't have a base under it to hold the excessed water.

Sooo, let's work things out!

THE IDEA!!

I thought why don't we have a self watering plant pot with a really nice look to put on our desk or anywhere around our houses, offices, shops, and everywhere we want?

As a product designer we first have a problem to solve then we do our research to help us generate ideas to solve the problem. So, the problem here was watering the plants when they needed to. After quick research I found that there are ways to self water the plant using electronics but there were no integration and a lot of loose wires. So, I started thinking of ways of how to integrate the electronics and connect the water to the pot, and how to make the product modular for different sizes and plants.

General Features:

  1. Self Watering: Using sensors or using other different inputs manually.
  2. Fully integrated system in a well designed product.
  3. Modularity: Being able to put different sizes of pots and bottles to suit as more plants types as possible.
  4. Light Unit: By adding LED profile to the product "A nice to have feature".

Quick idea generating

Don't judge the sketch as I'm a not a big fan of hand sketching, but yeah I'm still a designer though.

To explain the sketch, we need to have a main base to hold the electronics in it and the pots and bottles on it. To help keeping the product clean the pot also has another base that goes into the main base and could be removed from it by simply rotating it. the pot base is to hold the excessed water and it could be attached to different sizes of pots using the same rotating method.
Next to the pot we have a bottle also designed to be attached to the base and removed easily.
To charge the product or have it plugged we could connect it from the back of the main base.