Plant Health Monitoring System (WIP)

Currently in progress. The goal of this project is to monitor the health of my potted plants quantitaively. All the off-the-shelf options I looked at were either unreliable or too expensive. It also was an easy enough project to build. So I decided to build my own. The system has 2 main hardware components. The Monitoring Stick and the Central Node. The Monitoring Stick uses an ESP32 and can measure the soil moisture, measure ambient light, temperature and humidity. It run FREERTOS and is relatively inexpensive. It uses extremely low amounts of energy for every acquisition cycle. The Central Node is a Linux server that communicates with all the sticks and waits for their data packets to arrive and create a dashboard for health of each plant. It also stores a database of which stick corresponds to what type of plant.