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Plant Hopper

1st out of 124 teams

Hack the Valley · 2025

A robotic water-gun turret for your houseplants. It looks around the room, figures out which plants are thirsty, then aims and squirts each one with exactly the water it needs.

Traditional watering methods like sprinklers waste up to 50% of the water they use. They treat every plant the same, ignoring that some need more or less water, or operate on different schedules. We wanted a setup that’s smarter, healthier for plants, and massively more efficient. Plant Hopper solves this by individually targeting plants using computer vision, optimized schedules, and soil moisture readings. The system scales across multiple plants using a database-driven model instead of fixed hardware zones.

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