Plansee

Project for visualizing the plants bio support data to make sure the plant is growing in right enviroment
Project Overview
Plant + see, Plansee, data visualization tool and set of sensors that can collect plant's soil mositure, light and temperture data and visualize it in p5js
Inspiration
I always make my plants died, and I always curious why they dead in my hand, so I decide to monitor most of bio data from my plant and figure out whats wrong
The goal
Keep plants alive by know where is wrong
Jun 2016 — Jul 2017
The 3D data plane are made by 3 axis, illumination, moisture and temperature. The set of data filled in can be preset by the time period user wnat. The system will reveal the data collection, and from the graph the user can acknowledge the pattern of the data and figure out the statues of the plant
Material used
Why use those materials
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Particle Argon
The board carry with a indepent wifi antana which provides a long range wifi support and it can extanded the deploying space for a lot.
Temp/Mois/Light Sensor
It check three most important bio data of the plants
P5js
A web-based enviroment which can be deploy on any server, which is the best for thoses device need long range communication.
Deploy the sensor
Where the sensors put
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Light resistor
Onboard and checking all day light.
Moisture Sensor
Sticking into the soil for the soil moisture that plants  contacted.
Temp Sensor
Put among the plants, as apporach as possible for accurate data.
First draft of the prototype
What I learnt and why I give it up
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
I use three circles here to indicates the safe zone and two critical level of the plants, and using three different color to indicate moisture, illumination and temperature. However it is hard see the different of each data and cannot tell the distinguish of the data because the color overlay and meaningless waving animation
Final version
How it clearly demostrate data compare to the previews draft
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
The 3d chart plane can demostrate the data clearly due to the dataset is exactly 3 demensional and also the free camera movement can allow user to see and compare any 2 set of data as they want by aligning the camera view
Constructing the 3D interface
Coding the prototype
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Using default camera preset for free move camera, and using orbital controll to initialize the move of the camera
Constructing the Box and text among it
Coding the prototype
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Using translate to move the elements in 3D space, and using rotate for alinging the text with the 3d face.
Using the line in 3D coordination to construct the 3 faces of the temp, mois, illu data
Fill the data
Coding the prototype
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Extracting the temp, moi and light data, assign them into X, Y, Z axis of each sphere