====== This is the archive of the “Smart Environments” course of Module 2, year 2019.
The projects of the students are listed below:

Team/Project name	Logo	Topic	Short description	Students involved	Report	Photos	Code
Big Nature		Educating plant owners in urban gardening	The plant-pot-hub on its own looks a lot like a normal plant pot but inside the pot are a lot of sensors which detect the water and light levels of this specific pot. This data is wirelessly sent to a central hub which analyses the data. The computer in the hub compares the data to a database and to the other smart-plant-pots connected to the hub. With the data from these comparisons certain levels are displayed.	Mark Tool, Lisa Lankhorst, Noa Barneveld, Sander Dullaert, Luuk van den Top, Lucas van Koppen, Martijn van Ooijen	Report	Photos	Code
burrito	–	Tackling food waste by building a smart supermarket shelve	A big problem in first world countries is food waste. There have been several campaigns to tackle these problems, targeted at the people at home but also nationwide. A part of this problem lays with supermarkets, as they are essentially the source of our food. The solution to this problem is the smart supermarket shelf we made. With this shelf we can clearly communicate with the consumer but also the supermarket staff which products are about to expire. Each product will have a RFID sticker, which will be scanned when the product is placed on the shelf. The data from these products, including their expiry date is passed on into a database.	Geert Mol, Matthijs Sluijk, Jordy van Hierden, Thomas Gort, Babet ten Hagen, Sarah Jansen, Carmen Pol	Report	Photos	Code
Cibus	–	How to make urban gardening easier for inexperienced people or people with smaller homes	An automated car will drive around based on LDRs. On top of this car there will be a pot. Depending on the time of day, and thus the position of the sun, these mobile pots will move around the area with the use of LDR’s to make sure that the plant gets enough sunlight. The movement could be controlled by either setting the pot on rails or mobilising it by wheels driving on a protocol we designed. By having multiple LDR sensors at different locations, the SunSeeker can just try to find the highest average values of light. With the plant in between all LDR sensors, it will also receive the highest average intensity of light. This way the SunSeeker makes sure that the whole plant is actually placed inside the sunlight.	Thijs Bianchi, Nathan van Daal, Linde Voskamp, Tessa Smits van Oyen, Jelko Luiten, Jasper Kolnaar, Kimberly van Donselaar, Catelijne Drenth	Report	–	Code
Cityplant	–	Self-maintaining plant pots	To make plants grow autonomously anywhere in home, we decided to make a smart pot which can water the plants spontaneously by detecting moisture level regularly. If moisture level of soil decreases under some level, it just gives plant water until moisture level of soil is enough.	Wonjun Jung, Jaeyoung Shin, Jonas Hentschel, Mark Ziegelhoefer, Ting Shiun Ong, Junhyun Noh, Irfan Tekinerdogan	Report	Photos	Code
PigFit	–	Monitoring the health and welfare of animals	it is hard for the farmers to ensure the health/welfare of the animals since it is hard to keep track of the health/welfare of the animals. At this moment the farmers mostly only monitor how much the food consumption of the animals is. The problem with this is that that does not really give a good or complete image about the health/welfare of the animals. There is not really a good way to monitor for instance whether the animals are feeling well or not, or whether they are healthy or not yet. That is something to worry about, because poor animal welfare impacts on animal production and reproduction and it can result in loss of market access. But the most important issue is that the animals are capable of feeling pain. They have a right to live a pleasurable life as well. So, for the sake of the animals, it is very important to be capable of monitoring their health/welfare. There is still a big gap when it comes to the technological field to improve animal health/welfare. We came up with the idea to solve this problem by for instance making some sort of an animal equivalent of a FitBit. That way it is a lot easier for the farmer to monitor whether the animals are healthy or not.	Hilke van den Born, Anusha Autar, Daniël Ijtsma, Alessia Bertana, Rosalie van Elburg, Jannick Siderius	Report	Photos	Code
Fyxers	–	Food waste in agriculture	Farmers are not adapting to the fact that because of the shifts in temperature animals have different nutritional needs (they need more/less food). This affects both produce as well as food waste. Our device entails a box which can be attached to the collar of the cow. It features a Temperature sensor accelerometer and a heart rate sensor Temperature sensor accelerometer and a heart rate sensor. The combined data of these sensors can give insight in the nutritional needs of the cow, and those can therefore be optimized in order to maximise production and minimize the environmental footprint. We’ve built a user-friendly interface in order to make this process as easy as possible for the farmers. Data is stored on an SD-card, as cows aren’t usually in range of wifi. The data can be retrieved later. Not only is the sensor useful for optimizing nutrition, but it could also be used to detect diseases early on.	Emil Gravier, Annabelle de Ruiter, Jonah Numbi, Lara Klooster, Max Hues, Quinten Snels	Report	Photos	Code
Hummus	–	Reducing the waste of meat	Meat waste is a big problem. The production of meat is a high cost for the environment, a lot of greenhouse gasses are emitted by the industry and animals. Meat decomposes because of fungi and bacteria, which are borne by their implements, the people handling the meat production and by the animal it comes from. If the meat is not treated, it will be infectious, unappetizing or poisonous within hours or days. This is something people should be careful with, but the problem is that we often throw away meat that is still edible. We want to make a device that detects if the meat has gone bad. We will design an Arduino based container with a sensor that detects certain gases. These gases are detected by the sensor before a human is able to sense them. and based on that the device will give an indication on whether the meat is still safe to eat. This way the amount of meat that gets thrown away, before the actual expiration date, will be reduced. It also has a healthcare factor that we really liked. Expired food is bad for people, even dangerous in some cases.	Laura Schep, Mats van Braam, Julia van der Geest, Maud van der Hall, Ruben Koole, Bart Blom en Famke van den Boom	Report	Photos	Code
HyGrow	–	Tackling food waste and bringing the production of food closer to home.	The problem nowadays is that food is produced far away, in other countries. This could lead to food insecurity in less developed countries. Secondly, the food has to travel far; this means that there is a big chance that the food will be bad by the time it gets here. The food has to be frozen, which causes a decrease in quality, or it has to be shipped and transported very fast. On top of that, the emissions caused by the (hasty) transport of vegetables puts a strain on the environment as well. The solution for these problems is a hydroponic system, which offers a way to grow food at home. Hydroponics is the term that is used for growing plants on water instead of soil. This soil is replaced with an inert medium, such as vermiculite or rockwool, that supports the root system. Since these grow media do not contain nutrients, these need to be dissolved in the water. The roots from the plant are in direct contact with the nutrient solution, whilst they are still able to take in enough oxygen to breathe. We have chosen to automate our hydroponic system. We have used a lot of sensors to keep track of the values of the solution. This will take away the need to check every few hours if your system is still working the way it should.	Timo van Beelen, Ellis Dijkstra, Ivo hagenbeek, Ard Kottem Louis van Maurik, Veerle Mooren, Dennis Peeters	Report	–	Code
Karrot	–	Smart garden	One of the most urgent problems is the lack of space. The world population is growing and this means that there is more food needed to provide everyone with the sufficient amount. There is already a lot of space used for agriculture nowadays, and this will only increase if there will be no solution in the near future. If we keep destroying woods and different parts of nature, there will be a big negative impact on our life. Wildlife can disappear, biodiversity will decrease, etc. It was our challenge to find a solution for this. Our solution was a smart vertical garden. The smart vertical garden is fully automatic, it rotates toward the sun and it waters itself. It checks every fifteen minutes the position of itself and checks it with the position of the sun. The smart vertical garden has a database of what the position of the sun is of every fifteen minutes. The garden also has a humidity sensor, which is placed in the ground of the plants. Based on the information that the sensor gets, the water system decides if the plant needs more water or not.	Bas van der Steenhoven, Froukje Temme, Alessia Bertana, Sofia Baltussen, Stijn Brugman, Noor de Feber	Report	Photos	Code
NEXT STEP	–	Mealworms regulating plastic soup	Household food waste is a big issue, especially plastic waste that they produce. Plastic and bio waste generated in households build up to million kilos annually and is ever increasing. The solution ‘Moisty worm farms’ is chosen, as it addresses multiple urgent problems that we are facing in 2019. Mealworms are cheap and so are the required materials to get started, making it an affordable solution for people all over the world. The food supply of mealworms will be mixed with wheat bran because it is beneficial to feed the mealworms with both plastic, bran and biowaste to get the most out of the consumption of plastic. We will make a small mealworm farm and feed the worms with different materials. This farm is supervised automatically to control the temperature and humidity of the tank. Sensors will trigger heating if the habitat gets too cold and ventilate if it gets too hot. The habitat will also be able to ventilate in case the humidity gets too high, as this will result in mold growth on their food.	Alexander Lund, Toni Hämäläinen, Khang Nguyen, Kasra Miri, Axel Setawidjaja, NAĐA MARČETIĆ, Tale Nap	Report	Photos	–
Pallas Athena	–	Reducing Nitrogen emissions	The increasing nitrogen concentration in the air and soil is a very hot topic these days. The government is trying to reduce the nitrogen output with more regulations which hurts the economy. The agricultural sector is one of the biggest sources of nitrogen pollution. This sector alone is, according to a report from the government, responsible for more than half of the nitrogen emission (TNO, 2019). These emissions have a lot of consequences for our environment and society on different levels. The concrete idea is that we are going to develop a robot, with a GPS and nitrogen sensor, that will drive across the field and measure the nitrogen levels and its locations. The collected data is then visualized according to a heatmap of relative nitrogen levels, which the farmer can use to optimize the fertilizer distribution.	Amir Sassanian	Report	Photos	Code
Urban Gardening	–	Monitoring Smart Gardens	Human motivation is an umbrella term for a wide variety of separate problems. Some problems that fit under this are: lack of motivation to maintain plants, hassle with possibly needing to buy expensive equipment and lack of motivation to go out and research necessary information regarding starting and maintaining an urban garden. Organic foods also do still allow the use of dangerous pesticides which is good as it kills anything trying to kill the plant but mostly bad as those pesticides are harmful to the environment and possibly to humans. To give the user some extra information about their plant, we use some sensors, which can be put in the plant box. Thanks to the display which we will connect, the user can see if its plant is alright. The following sensors will be implemented: a humidity and temperature sensor, a water level sensor and a humidity and moisture detector for soil. The user can find information about the preferred values of the sensor per plant on the website.	Duncan Bosman, Xavier Carroll, Reinier Davidse, Mirthe Lanjouw, Luit Meinen, Twan Nijhuis, Tirza Rutten, rosalie de Zeeuw	Report	Photos	Code
Supherb	–	Smart garden with broad variety of implementations	Nowadays people often go grocery shopping to buy food for the family and friends. Furthermore those people also want to improve the environment, such as decreasing pollution. The problem is, that people usually do not know how bad the waste and carbon footprint is, while buying the food at the grocery store. Food unfortunately often has a big carbon and waste footprint. People just want to have a lot of food that has to be flown, shipped and corgoed in and requires a lot of work, food and soil. So the solution should include decreasing all the mentioned problems as much as possible. Vertical Farming could be the solution or at least the footstep for it. Our vertical farm for instance can be built in any household, which means the carbon footprint problem decreases extremely, because the full grown food does not have to be transported. Furthermore, the owners of the vertical farm would not have to put chemicals into the food, because they decide what they want to have when to eat. The food no longer requires chemicals which give longer durability to the food until it gets bad. The latter means that the food is grown naturally, which is definitely a healthy way to grow food that gets eaten. Another argument for the vertical farm against the normal field growing food is the fact that the vertical farm is inside, it is much easier to control the lighting and temperature. The climate can be manipulated within the product, which means no food has to be delivered from the other side of the world	–	Report	Photos	Code
Team O	–	Smart Farming and Regional Food supplies	We will be working on the problem that cities are facing in their regional food supply. As cities grow there will be less space for agriculture. Regionally produced food would need less additives (because it doesn’t have to travel so far) and will be easier to trace along its production line, because there are less people that have anything to do with it. We want to make smart tiny modular greenhouses. We have made this decision because we think this will have a positive influence on the many problems that are being faced in the city regional food supply. By implementing these tiny greenhouses in cities, we would be able to cut back on shipping, reduce unnecessary packaging, and ensure that the food that will be grown has no unnecessary additives.	Timo Brems, Willem van Dijk, Wout Vissers, Robert Pit, Roland Wit, Zino Vieth, Hanneke Goud	Report	Video	Code
The Sign	–	Monitoring Pesticides and Smart Farming	Many people are worried about whether their food has ever been touched by pesticides or other such chemicals and in some parts of the world it is almost impossible to find vegetables and fruits that are completely organic or that have never been touched by pesticides and insecticides. Our product would be able to give anyone the ability to own and maintain their own little farm or garden, even people that live in huge cities would be able to grow their own crops. This could help reduce pollution in many different ways, for example if everyone owns one of these little gardens the need for huge farmlands would decrease, since many people could provide themselves some of the most common vegetables, leading to the reduction of deforestation.	Gijs Kampshoff, Maria Voicu, Konrad Rempe, Thorben Gerdes, Robin Broekman, Agata Sowa, Kleisthenis Paras, Theodoros Syriopoulos	Report	Photos	Code
Unknown	–	Efficient crop management	The problem we identified is efficient crop management. Said as such the problem seems vague and it is, however we have identified key aspects of this problem that we will try to tackle. Our solution is to create a system that is able to reliably detect pests and respond with sound in order to repel them. We plan on making this system truly a smart environment by networking all of the different nodes together and from there be able to collect statistical data to identify problem areas where more attention needs to be diverted. The detection will be done via an object detection algorithm. We will utilize a camera and a Computer Vision algorithm. This algorithm should be able to differentiate between pests and other objects.	Veselin Daskalov, Christos Constantinou, Nikolay Pavlov, Alexis Philippou, Alexandra Pintilie, Nikola Marinov Yordanov	Report	Video	Code
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