SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMULATING A DESIRED SET OF GARDEN PARAMETERS

• US 20160029569A1
• Filed: 07/29/2015
• Published: 02/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GroGuru, Inc.
• Original Assignee: GroGuru, Inc.
• Inventors: Anjum, Farooq A.
• Application Number:
  US14/813,099
• Publication Number:
  US 20160029569A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 25/16 Control of watering
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 25/167 Control by humidity of the soil itself or of devices simulating soil or of the atmosphere; Soil humidity sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/048 for determining moisture content of the material
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/221 by investigating the dielectric properties using microwaves G01N22/00; measuring loss factors or dielectric constants per se G01R27/26
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/223 for determining moisture content, e.g. humidity rain detectors on vehicle windows B60S1/0825
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric

Abstract

A remote platform receives and analyzes a set of desired garden parameters that is to be emulated or recreated in a first garden. The desired garden parameters may be measured by sensors installed in a second garden. The desired garden parameters may include soil moisture, soil salinity, soil temperature, soil pH, external temperature, external humidity, and light exposure. The remote platform then generates a data set based on its analysis of the desired garden parameters. The data set includes instructions to open or close a first sprinkler valve, add fertilizer, apply mulch, and provide covering. The data set may be transmitted to a user associated with the first garden, a controller hub controlling sprinkler valves in the first garden, sprinkler valve controllers installed in the first garden, or sensor-controller hybrids installed in the first garden.

Claims

1. A system for emulating in a first garden a desired set of garden parameters comprising a remote platform configured to:

receive at least a first desired garden parameter;

analyze the first desired garden parameter; and

generate a data set based at least in part on the analysis of the first desired garden parameter.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the remote platform is configured to receive the first desired garden parameter from one or more sensors installed in a first garden.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the data set includes instructions to perform at least one of the following:

open or close a first sprinkler valve, add fertilizer, apply mulch, and provide covering.

4. The system of claim 2, further comprising a first controller that is configured to control a first sprinkler valve in the first garden.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the remote platform is further configured to transmit the data set to the first controller.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the remote platform is further configured to transmit the data set to a first sensor installed in the first garden, and wherein the first sensor is configured to control a first sprinkler valve.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the remote platform is configured to transmit the data set to a user associated with the first garden.

8. The system of claim 2, wherein the remote platform is configured to transmit the data set to a hub controller configured to control a first sprinkler valve and a second sprinkler valve in the first garden.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of desired garden parameters comprises at least one of the following:

soil moisture, soil salinity, soil temperature, soil pH, external temperature, external humidity, and light exposure.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the data set is generated further based at least in part on one or more of the following:

a weather forecast, a user input, a first historical garden parameters from the first garden, a second current garden parameters from a second garden, and a second historical garden parameters from the second garden.

11. A method for emulating in a first garden a desired set of garden parameters comprising:

receiving at least a first desired garden parameter;

analyzing the first desired garden parameter; and

generating a data set based at least in part on the analysis of the first desired garden parameter.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first desired garden parameter is based on information from one or more sensors installed in a first garden.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the data set includes instructions to perform at least one of the following:

open or close a first sprinkler valve, add fertilizer, apply mulch, and provide covering.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising the step of transmitting the data set to a first controller that is configured to control a first sprinkler valve in the first garden.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising the step of transmitting the data set to a first sensor installed the first garden, and wherein the first sensor is configured to control a first sprinkler valve.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising the step of transmitting the data set to a user associated with the first garden.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising the step of transmitting the data set to a hub controller configured to control a first sprinkler valve and a second sprinkler valve in the first garden.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the set of desired garden parameters comprises at least one of the following:

soil moisture, soil salinity, soil temperature, soil pH, external temperature, external humidity, and light exposure.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the data set is generated further based at least in part on one or more of the following:

a weather forecast, a user input, a first historical garden parameters from the first garden, a second current garden parameters from a second garden, and a second historical garden parameters from the second garden.