CloudGrow
CloudGrow is a lifestyle brand that embodies the excitement of urban agriculture and it’s goal is to enrich people’s lives through healthy living and eating. It is your personal smart planting assistant which helps homeowners to grow their own food. A device Sensor One that helps you track the microenvironment surround the plants; a smartphone app that helps you monitor the growth status of your plants; more importantly, it provides a crowdsourcing community on the app platform for people to share their planting experience, socializing and more. We believe that fresh fruit and vegetables can be grown and shared easily with people around us and there is a real sense of pride and joy in growing your own food. CloudGrow is a service, a community, and a lifestyle.
Design Collaboration: Damian Sokolowski, Elim Yang, Xiaohe(Haley) Xue
CloudGrow Website
The CloudGrow website is where it begins. Currently, there are hundreds of people in the Edmonton area and they are all growing and sharing food in their own backyards. The CloudGrow website automatically detects which city you are in just so we can see who is nearby first. People in Edmonton have become friends during their membership to CloudGrow through their shared interest in growing fresh fruits and vegetables.
CloudGrow Sensor One
CloudGrow Sensor One is a device that analyzes the soil for moisture and pH, as well as surrounding sunlight, CO2, and O2. It intelligently sends data to your CloudGrow account. Multiple sensors can keep track of different areas in your yard and each sensor can be assigned to a different plant listed in CloudGrow's extensive database, which adjusts the sensor's settings appropriate to the assigned plant.
CloudGrow Mobile App
When someone has downloaded the app onto their mobile devices, they can keep track of their plants’ status and see the progress of their friends around them. When the app is launched, they are taken directly to their profile which contains a list of all the food they're growing. A CloudGrow Sensor is tied to each individual item to make it easier for them to keep track of multiple vegetables in different areas in their yard. When a tomato is ready and ripe, they can choose to share it in the virtual store or keep it for themselves.
