mcn

An IoT platform for vertical farming.

• Manage IoT devices to monitor your racks & add your own custom hardware
• Monitor entire racks of crops composed of frames of plants
• Create custom event queues for carrying out tasks at certain intervals
• Remotely trigger events on micro-controllers, e.g. turn on light, open watering valve
• Alert based system notifies when an action needs completing e.g. watering, re-seeding
• Compile timelines of growth & collate rotation plans
• Monitor all metrics on a front-end dashboard
• Code support for ESP-32, Wemos D1 Mini & Raspberry Pi with option to create & add your own

Previously written in Python & React, now moving over to TypeScript & Angular.

backend

Express.js TypeScript REST API with polyglot persistence.

• Neo4j: Organisations, users, farms/racks/crops/devices, highly relational data
• InfluxDB: IoT data, low relation - high read/write throughput
• MongoDB: Agenda, mcnlang Task Routine queue
• Redis: Session store, very high r/w

frontend

Angular w/ material-angular.

hardware

• ESP32: for testing gardens, supports 8 plants.
• Wemos D1 Mini: for single plants
• Pi Zero W: NoIR camera to monitor active photosynthesis and stream to frontend.

See the Device specification for creating and using your own hardware on mcn.

runner

TypeScript/Express & Agenda Task scheduler/runner for task routines.

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