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Intel Galileo Blueprints

By : Marco Schwartz
Book Image

Intel Galileo Blueprints

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Intel Galileo Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Setting Up the Galileo Board and the Development Environment
Index

Chapter 9. Automated Remote Gardening with Intel Galileo

In this chapter, we will integrate an automation twist into gardening. Using a soil humidity sensor and a relay with a pump, we will set the water pump to water the plant whenever the humidity of the soil or the garden gets low.

Here is a brief summary of what we will do in this chapter:

  • We will use a simple soil humidity sensor to measure the humidity of the soil or your garden

  • We will set a trigger for the pump to water the plant if the humidity dips to a certain level

  • We will connect everything to the Cloud to be monitored remotely