Digital Remote Monitoring Of Plant Containers

Digital remote monitoring of plant containers Mobile Green is an innovative concept from Bauer Baumschulen AG that enables smart greening of urban living spaces. The company supplies plants in containers that can be arranged and repositioned as needed. As a special service, the nursery offers its customers an app that provides real-time information on the condition of the plants, such as the watering status. Measurement data is recorded by intelligent sensors for this purpose and transmitted to customers via a secure cloud connection.

Benefits
The nursery's customers can view the measurement data in the app and check remotely whether the plants still have enough water.
Replenishment intervals can be scheduled precisely.
Warnings can be programmed if the level falls below a defined limit or if the sensor’s battery is low.
Users can rely on the alarm email function to take action promptly.
Temperature measurements provide additional information about the plants’ condition.
The challenge
The planters are designed to incorporate an internal water tank that supplies the plants evenly with water. This tank must be refilled regularly to ensure uninterrupted watering. Bauer Baumschulen AG has developed an app that improves this task for customers, by providing information on the fill level and ambient temperature. The main challenge is to be able to record the measurement data from the containers and transmitting it regardless of their location.
Solution
We provided a practical solution by fitting the plant containers with the Micropilot FWR30 wireless fill level sensor. This battery-powered instrument measures the water tank level and ambient temperature, transmitting the collected data directly to the Netilion IIoT ecosystem via a secure LTE connection. This makes the data available in digital form and transferable to the nursery app via a digital interface (API).