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

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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 Prese …...more
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Intro

0:00

IoT for Beginners, a free 24 lesson IoT curriculum

1:52

Catch the previous series

4:55

Get the kits from Seeed Studio

6:23

Automate all the things!

7:48

Control high power devices from low power devices

9:40

Putting soil moisture sensors outside

12:57

Relays, electromechanical switches

21:29

Demo - Connect a Seeed Grove relay to a Raspberry Pi

23:59

Power a water pump via the relay

27:53

Control the pump based off soil moisture

29:52

Control the pump over the Internet using MQTT

36:56

Sensor and actuator timing considerations

53:36
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   / jimbobbennett  , Catch the next episode here:    • IoT powered automated plant watering ...   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. Feel free to leave us a comment below, and don't forget to subscribe: https://aka.ms/Reactor/Subscribe-YouTube Connect with us: Facebook: https://fb.com/MicrosoftReactor Twitter:   / msftreactor   Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/pro/microsoft-... [eventID:16971]

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