The Garden Guru is an idea that would involve a multitude of products that use various sensors to communicate information to the user about their plants or garden from an app. The idea of these technologies is to assist gardeners to optimize plant growth and health. The sensors are placed in the soil near the plant you want to monitor, then it communicates the moisture levels to the app. There are also gardening gloves that are included in the Garden Guru record of your heart rate health benefits.
In our development process, we first thought of the many tools we could create such as gloves, drip hoses, water sensors, and many others that were too ambitious. We needed to have access to all the necessary parts as we had to borrow a few parts from classmates. To present our idea to the class we thought a moisture sensor would be a great fit. when then thought we could incorporate the Internet of things by connecting the sensor to an app that would display the data being accumulated from the moisture sensor.
The Garden Guru has a lot of potential for future gardeners as well as room for improvement in the design. It addresses the issues when a gardener should water their plants, the soil quality, and temperature. The Garden Guru also uses a mobile app to communicate data from the sensors. The app engages users in a somatic experience using tactile and visual senses. The app also integrates the concept of the Internet of things into the project digitally connecting to the Internet and other devices. During the design-making process, roles were distributed to members while also collaborating to help make the project consistent. This project challenged us to create a prototype that engaged a user's somatic sensory experience while connecting it to the Internet of things. It depends on my understanding of somatic experience design; especially keeping the user's somatic experience in mind when designing in the future.
