High-Tech countertop greenhouse to help crowdsource growing decisions
The MEG is a sophisticated indoor greenhouse developed by engineers in Italy. It lets you control every conceivable growing variable, down to the light spectrum for a particular flowering period. The best bit, though, is that your greenhouse is part of a crowd of similar devices. So, if you're not doing it correctly, there is always someone on hand to help things along.
"We try to standardize and give growth parameters to each plant," says Carlo D'Alesio, one of the engineers. "All the sensors and programming contributes to this open and shared knowledge vision. We call it growing automation."
The network doesn't quite exist yet. The MEG, which is roughly four feet high and 2.5 feet wide, is still in a late development stage, and the developers need cash to complete the software. However, it's already showing how greenhouse technology can become democratized. "Until now, these technologies have been limited to big players in growing. We developed this technology to be accessible to everyone," D'Alesio says.
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