Hi guys,
Recently I got to design a project which was farming oriented. Due to lack of time for regular updates, I did not apply for the vertical farming challenge but I did get a lot of inspiration from the posts and have come up with a solution that works for my requirement. The details of the project are on the instructables website (and hackaday and hackster)and I am still filling in some blanks such as results and some LED lighting but here is a small demo video I have made. Take a look see and lemme know what you guys think. 
The core is the Intel Edison which has openhab running on it and does all the GUI stuff as well as the rules stuff. I wrote a service which allows to connect the Edison via MQTT and exposes the API to retrive data as well as control the lights and pumps etc. I could have done a rest API or a TCP connection but this seemed easier when working with proxies. The OpenHAB rules engine is responsible for controlling the pumps, manage the lights etc and connects to the internet to get weather forecasts to modify the irrigation cycles. It also manages alerts for failed lights etc but I forgot to include that in the demo video.
The system is at Mark 1 stage and with the LED roadtest plus, I am hoping to add some lighting to the mix as well as report back some indoor growing results. Again thanks for taking the time out to read and comment.
Sincerely,
IP
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