plants – Internet of Things https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot Hans Scharler is an Internet of Things pioneer. He writes about IoT and ThingSpeak IoT platform features. Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:31:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Let Your Plants Tweet Using Spark and ThingSpeak https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2015/02/27/let-your-plants-tweet-using-spark-and-thingspeak/?s_tid=feedtopost https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2015/02/27/let-your-plants-tweet-using-spark-and-thingspeak/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:27:01 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=1423

Head over to Instructables to learn how to make your plants Tweet using Spark Wi-Fi and ThingSpeak. Gregory Fenton created a project that monitors his plant’s soil moisture and then notifies... read more >>

]]> Head over to Instructables to learn how to make your plants Tweet using Spark Wi-Fi and ThingSpeak. Gregory Fenton created a project that monitors his plant’s soil moisture and then notifies him via Twitter when it is time to water it.

Spark ThingSpeak Plant Monitor

Greg built the project out of necessity to help his plants suffering from “localized drought”. Let’s hope his plants get proper watering and that other ThingSpeak users can quickly and easily build this project. Thanks for sharing!

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