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IoT-Powered Automated Plant Watering System - Digital Agriculture Project

Microsoft via YouTube

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This beginner project demonstrates an automated watering system for digital agriculture. Learners connect soil moisture sensors, a relay, Raspberry Pi, and water pump, then control watering locally and over the Internet with MQTT.

Syllabus

- Intro
- IoT for Beginners, a free 24 lesson IoT curriculum - https://aka.ms/iot-beginners
- Catch the previous series - https://aka.ms/iot-beginners-videos
- Get the kits from Seeed Studio - https://aka.ms/iot-beginners-kits
- Automate all the things!
- Control high power devices from low power devices
- Putting soil moisture sensors outside
- Relays, electromechanical switches
- Demo - Connect a Seeed Grove relay to a Raspberry Pi
- Power a water pump via the relay
- Control the pump based off soil moisture
- Control the pump over the Internet using MQTT
- Sensor and actuator timing considerations

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