Plant health and environment monitoring gadget

[pimsolutions]

Hello!
We at PIM Solutions are currently conducting an initial market survey for a new product that we are in the process of prototyping.
The device is aimed for owners of exotic plants by measuring air temperature, moisture and luminosity while aggregating the data and presenting it to the owner in a human readable manner. The data could then be uploaded via mobile device and analyzed to provide feedback based on current plant profile.

Planned features:
* Measures temperature, air humidity, soil humidity, luminosity
* Based on the measurements provides you with graphs for amount of daylight received, watering cycles, etc.
* Provides information about how your profile compares to what the plant actually needs (depenging on time of day, season, species, etc.)
* Plant-specific changeable profiles( you would have different profiles for different species of plants)
* All data is transferred to a computer and from there to our servers where the information will be analyzed and broken down into usable and helpful format

* Roughly the size of an ordinary human thermometer

We would be interested in hearing your thoughts and suggestions about the subject.
What is the lowest expected/highest acceptable pricepoint (may be with specific feature requirements)?
Would you buy one?
Would you buy one or multiple?
Does the idea of changing plant profiles seem useful, or would you have only 1 profile per plant/device?
What are must-have features you would expect?

Our rough design draft:

Regards,

Jack Schwieder,
CEO Pim Solutions

 

[Beng]

Definitely sounds interesting, although bonsai soil is not like garden soil at all. For instance my bonsai soil consists of pumice rock, lava rock, akadama (high fired mined clay), activated charcoal. I'm not sure how the meter would respond to such a odd inorganic growing medium. Others pot their trees in pure pelatized Diatomaceous earth, and others still in pure turface MVP a very high fired golf or turf product. We fertilize frequently to compensate for the fast draining medium. Our goal is to have maximum aeration of the root system, while still providing adequate moisture, with freedom for the roots to move inbetween the rough particles to create a complicated highly ramified root system. This in turn makes the tree feel like its growing in a large open space as it ages due to the ramification and amount of water/foliage it can support. Leaves get smaller with age, the trunk looks older and thicker, in the end you have what could be a 100 year old tree in a pot the size of your palm.

Would be a fun product to try out and i'd like knowing constant PH levels, decomposition levels, and such in my soil.

 

[Austin]

Definitely sounds interesting, although bonsai soil is not like garden soil at all. For instance my bonsai soil consists of pumice rock, lava rock, akadama (high fired mined clay), activated charcoal. I'm not sure how the meter would respond to such a odd inorganic growing medium. Others pot their trees in pure pelatized Diatomaceous earth, and others still in pure turface MVP a very high fired golf or turf product. We fertilize frequently to compensate for the fast draining medium. Our goal is to have maximum aeration of the root system, while still providing adequate moisture, with freedom for the roots to move inbetween the rough particles to create a complicated highly ramified root system. This in turn makes the tree feel like its growing in a large open space as it ages due to the ramification and amount of water/foliage it can support. Leaves get smaller with age, the trunk looks older and thicker, in the end you have what could be a 100 year old tree in a pot the size of your palm.

Would be a fun product to try out and i'd like knowing constant PH levels, decomposition levels, and such in my soil.

I have a similar device and it does not work in bonsai soil for moisture or PH testing