IoT powered automated plant watering – IoT for Beginners project 2, episode 2

Learn about how to build IoT solutions for digital agriculture with this 4-part series, part of our IoT for Beginners live streams.

In this episode, Jim looks at automating watering systems by controlling a water pump based off sensor values from a soil moisture sensor.

0:00 – Intro
1:52 – IoT for Beginners, a free 24 lesson IoT curriculum – https://aka.ms/iot-beginners
4:55 – Catch the previous series – https://aka.ms/iot-beginners-videos
6:23 – Get the kits from Seeed Studio – https://aka.ms/iot-beginners-kits
7:48 – Automate all the things!
9:40 – Control high power devices from low power devices
12:57 – Putting soil moisture sensors outside
21:29 – Relays, electromechanical switches
23:59 – Demo – Connect a Seeed Grove relay to a Raspberry Pi
27:53 – Power a water pump via the relay
29:52 – Control the pump based off soil moisture
36:56 – Control the pump over the Internet using MQTT
53:36 – Sensor and actuator timing considerations

Presented by Jim Bennett, Regional Cloud Advocate, Microsoft. You can follow Jim on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JimBobBennett,

Catch the next episode here: https://youtu.be/g9FfZwv9R58

At Microsoft we have built IoT For Beginners, a free, open source, 24-lesson curriculum to teach you all about the Internet of Things. In this series we work through the second project in the curriculum all about digital agriculture, building on the lessons from the previous series. You can catch the previous series at https://aka.ms/iot-for-beginners-videos.

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