How to Water Plants while you're away? Is this a crucial question for many people. An expert of programming and electronics, Alberto Serra, shows a solution called Jardimpu . Alberto Serra, what is Jardimpu? «It's a prototype of a intelligent irrigation based on sensors and managed by Social Networks. The word Jardimpu is a contraction of "Jardim" (Garden in Portuguese) with the names " Arduino " and " Paraimpu ".» What is the inspiring idea? «About a year ago, knowing how Arduino and Paraimpu runs, I thought to make an intelligent irrigation system for my garden, in order monitoring conditions (temperature, humidity, soil moisture, light, level of water) of my plants. In particular the Dionaea muscipula. My idea was to create a “social gardening”, which allows other people to activate the drippers, to watch plants in a live streaming and to control living parameters. This system does not represent an absolute novelty but to share data I u...