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CES: Automatic Plant Monitoring Through Your Computer or iPhone (Video)
Timothy Lord starts this video with these words: "Sensors are a big deal at CES this year. They are small devices that track everything from the location of your pets to how many steps you have taken today." And so he chatted with Phillip Bolliger, founder of Swiss company Koubachi AG, which makes Wi-Fi sensors that help you give your plants the right amount of water and light and to keep them at the right temperature. As of this writing, the prices on their online store are in Euros, not dollars, but the sensors are now available through Amazon with U.S. pricing. Koubachi also has a free app for your iOS device, and a Facebook app for your computer or Android device, that will help you give your plants the right amount of fertilizer and other love even if you don't buy a Koubachi sensor.
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Well, you could say it's also monitoring the CO2 scrubbers and oxygen generators.
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Amazon sells them for $99 a sensor. At that price, I can almost afford to have someone come in and water the plants for me.
Or, better yet, I can just continually get new plants and toss the old ones.
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Saying "...and a Facebook app for Android users" is the same as saying "Android is not supported". Seriously, I have no interest in using Facebook for anything, let alone as an interface to a third-party.
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They should be selling for $20 not $100. I might understand if it actually controlled the watering and fertilizing. You're paying a $100 for something that will tell you while you are on vacation, "oh by the way your plant is dying". Most of the others cost $10 to $20 they just lack the iOS app. I made an automatic watering pot out of a used soda bottle and it would keep the plants watered for a week and didn't cost a dime. The joke is it actually watered the plants. If you are going to sell automated systems make it do some form of automation!
For this price, I can buy an aerogarden, which comes with the water deposit, water pumps, lights and even comes with some seeds inside an optimized growing medium and fertilizer, besides being an aeroponics system, with a lot of advantages over growing stuff on dirt.
Even for those pot growers this is not a good idea.