Week 3: Research Proposal: Automating Watering Systems
Research Question: Is it better for a plant to receive water from an automated system or a human?
Hypothesis: Yes, it is better for the plant to receive water from a system than from a human.
People and plants have been integrated together for centuries, starting off in early agrarian societies. In a world that keeps innovating it seems to fit that plants should join us in these advances too. That is why the development of self-sustaining gardening systems are inevitable. We have seen it done on a large scale with large company-owned farms, but what if we can downscale it for the everyday joe.
A viable answer to satisfy this is the introduction of an automated watering system to help bring them to the populous. With machines doing all the heavy duty and light work for us in terms of construction, engineering, infrastructure, etc. why not dial it back a little and have some automation be implemented into the homes of the people? It can be a tremendous benefit to sustainability and house plant life.
Hi Mario! I think you have a good project idea. I do believe that watering plants efficiently can mitigate problems, like scarring in tomato plants for example. I am wondering how to plan to quantify "better" in your hypothesis.
ReplyDeleteHey Mario, your project sounds like a very good idea especially like you mentioned for people who don't own as big farms as other do. Im interested on how you are planning to build this and the experiment runs you will do, I also see that your dependent is Soil moisture and I was wondering how were you going to measure the moisture of the soil.
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