Flower Power is a smart gardening device that monitors moisture, fertilizer, light and temperature in your garden and sends you alerts on your smartphone. It’s compatible with IFTTT, the Internet of Things platform, so you can set up triggers for each parameter and get notifications when your plant needs attention.
What ended flower power?
The flower power is a small, battery-operated sensor that you insert into the soil next to your plants. It collects data on each of those parameters and then communicates it to the app via Bluetooth Low Energy. That app shows you a graph with tappable buttons for water, fertilizer, light and temperature. Green means everything’s fine, yellow is in need of attention and red is urgent.
It’s a great way to keep track of your garden while you’re away. Depending on the type of plants you have, you can monitor their growth by browsing the large plant database in the app.
How to Use It
The Flower Power connects with the Parrot app through Bluetooth Low Energy. Once you’ve installed the app, you can name each of your plants and snap a picture to tell the app where they are. Then, you can filter the plants based on criteria like size, shape, indoor/outdoor, edible, annual versus biennial or perennial and color of leaves and flowers.
The original flower power was a symbol of the anti-Vietnam War movement, rooted in the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s notion of “make love not war.” Hippies embraced the message of peace and nonviolence, wearing clothing that contained flowers and other bright colors and distributing flowers to the public as a form of protest. They became known as ‘flower children’ and developed a counter-culture that included drugs, psychedelic music, and a loosely regulated lifestyle.