Open Garden Outdoor (1 Node + 1 Gateway)

Open Garden is an Open Source alternative to commercial home automation to remotely control your indoor and outdoor plants. The platform consist of three different kits, each ready for a specific kind of growing plant scenario: indoor (houses and greenhouses), outdoor (gardens and fields) and hydroponics (plants in water installations).

The platform allows to control the state of the plants by sensing several parameters:

• Soil moisture (Indoor & Outdoor kits)
• Temperature + Humidity + Light (All kits)
• Water sensors: pH, Conductivity, Temperature(Hydroponics kit)

Then it uses different types of actuators to modify the state of the plants by irrigating them or activating lights and oxygen pumps:

• Water pump + Droppers for Drip Irrigation (Indoor kit)
• Electro valve + Sprinkler for Sprinkling (Outdoor kit)
• Oxygen Pump + Growing Light (Hydroponics kit)

The nodes send periodically the information to the Gateway that uploads the data to a web server by using any of the available wireless interfaces (WiFi, GPRS, 3G). 

The parts of this kit are:

• 1x General kit box
• 1x Gateway Shield para Arduino
• 1x Node
• 1x DHT22 (temperature + humidity)
• 1x Soil Moisture sensor
• 2x LDR (embedded in each board)
• 1x 12V Power Supply
• 1x Electro-valve
• 1x Big 433MHz internal antenna
• 1x Small 433MHz internal antenna
• 1x Big Enclosure for gateway
• 1x Small Enclosure for node
• 2x16mm Cable Glands
• 3x 20mm Cable Gland
• 1x Vent Plug
• 6x Flange
• 7x M3 Metal Nuts
• 4x M3 x 10mm Metal Screws
• 3x M3 x 6mm Plastic Screws
• 3x Metal Spacer M3
• 1x Battery 3,7V 2300mAh
• 1x Breadboard
• 1x Arduino jumper cables
• 1x Breakout Board for microUSB
• 1x microUSB cable

If you are interested in monitoring and irrigating several plants you can add individual nodes.

NOTE: Open Garden has been designed to work with both 220V (Europe) & 110V (US). To use the RF Power Strip in 110V power setups you just need to use this 110-220V Power Converter.