IoTerra is an Internet of Things project developed by:
Justin Lo Giudice 👨💻A fourth-year Computer Engineering and Management student at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada 🍁
From the Roman goddess of the Earth: Terra, the Internet of Terra is the Internet of the Earth,
creating a link between our physical Earth and the powerful resources of the Internet! 🌎↔️🌐
The IoT system measures the soil moisture, room temperature and relative humidity, along with the light conditions of a Lady Palm plant. Every minute, the system measures these sensors and sends JSON data over WiFi to the ThingSpeak cloud platform. This data is then visualized in interactive plots, which are embedded into this page.
Along with this, weather data of the temperature, humidity and cloud coverage of the local area are accessed via the JSON output of the OpenWeatherMap API.
When presented alongside eachother, one can visualize the effects that the external weather conditions can have on an indoor plant in a seemingly controlled environment.
This project is now archived. It still pulls updated weather data, but the circuit has been dissasembled, and thus no longer sends plant data. Here is an image of its state during operation:
