Precision farming is now available for potted plants, the vegetable garden and the entire garden thanks to this clever innovation: Flower Power. For a simple and daily monitoring of plants!
You are informed by a notification in order to intervene at the right time for each of the four needs identified by the sensors: water, light, heat and fertilizer needs.
Parrot Flower Power is a set of four intelligent wireless sensors, equipped with Bluetooth Smart technology and its dedicated application to facilitate plant care. It measures the various parameters involved in plant growth. The data is then transmitted to a smartphone for a tablet and analysed by dedicated software.
The plants will be fed, watered and sunlit according to their needs. Statistical tools will help optimize, for example, the correct placement of plants so that they receive the right amount of heat and light throughout the day.
Already presented at Futur en Seine last June, it was at the CES in Las Vegas that the Parrot company announced its marketing date and price: Flower Power will therefore be released on 1 November and will cost €49.
Years of research and development with the best universities and technology companies
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This is a scientific cooperation with universities and specialists in precision agriculture and horticulture. Parrot works with prestigious universities and laboratories to bring precision agriculture and horticulture within the reach of as many people as possible.
Tests on hundreds of plants are being conducted, in particular:
- in the laboratories of the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands
- at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture...
- in the greenhouses of Agrocampus Ouest in Angers
- in the Topager urban vegetable garden located on the roof of the AgroParisTechD school
Low Energy Bluetooth compatible phones: Apple iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, 5S & 5C, iPad (third and fourth generation), iPad Mini, iPod touch (fifth generation) and later.
