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After spending a few weeks with the Parrot Flower Power sensor, I think it's a great tool for gardeners who want to keep tabs on their plants' environments. For example, if you have several plants in pots that you want to give them all equal sunlight exposure, it can help make sure each one gets its fair share—which is something I've always struggled with when gardening. But if you're looking for something more than just tracking sunlight levels without any recommendations about what types of plants grow best in specific areas (such as shade or sun), then this isn't an ideal product.
The Parrot Flower Power Sensor is a $60 gadget that helps you monitor the sunlight in your garden. It also tracks soil moisture, temperature and fertilizer.
The sensor comes with an 8-foot cord and three adhesive mounts to stick it onto walls or windows or any other flat surface at ground level (or slightly below). You'll want to use those mounts because otherwise, there are no real settings and no way for us humans to know whether something is going wrong unless we're paying close attention all day long—which seems like quite a few steps beyond my capabilities as a human being!
Once you've decided on where to place the Flower Power sensor, plug in its USB cable; after about two minutes of booting up, it'll be ready for action. There's an LCD screen on top with two buttons: one is for pairing via Bluetooth (there's a button labeled “FLOWERS”), while the other cycles through data points such as temperature versus sunlight intensity over time."
The Flower Power is a small white stick with a green tip that looks like a plastic plant tag. It has sensors inside to track all of those environmental factors, and it uses Bluetooth to communicate with an app installed on your iOS or Android device.
The sensor tracks the light level in your space, so you can see if you need to close the blinds or turn on more lamps during the day or night. It also tracks humidity levels, which helps you know when it's time to water your plants or take them outside for some fresh air (or just keep them away from things like bathroom vents). The Flower Power also keeps tabs on indoor temperature and how much CO2 is in its environment; these are important factors for growing healthy plants.
The app shows all this information in an easy-to-read graph format so that you can quickly see what's going on inside each room at any given time. You can even set alerts based on those graphs so that your phone will notify you if something changes drastically over time—like having enough light coming into the room but suddenly seeing humidity go up too high over several hours due to lack of ventilation after leaving windows open during rainstorms outside!
You can use up to eight Flower Powers at once, but they have to be within 200 feet of each other—the range of Bluetooth—and each sensor costs $60. They’re powered by two coin cell batteries and come with a year’s worth of power, so you don’t need to recharge them. Sunlight Monitor doesn’t include the Flower Power devices with its kits, but it does offer discounts when purchasing multiple sensors.
You can also control all your sensors from the app via Wi-Fi, though this option is more expensive than the Bluetooth method and requires you to have a separate router in your home (though one that's not connected directly through an Ethernet cable).
The Sunlight Monitor, designed by Atrium in collaboration with Fuseproject and Studio XO, is an energy-efficient sensor that detects sunlight. The device uses solar energy to help users figure out what types of plants are best suited for a space—and exactly where they should grow. It’ll tell you if there’s no sunlight in a particular area, but it also helps you figure out what kind of plants will grow there anyway.
The Sunlight Monitor has multiple sensors inside it: one that detects temperature; one that measures soil moisture; another that measures fertilizer levels; one for measuring light levels (or more specifically, photosynthesis); and even another one for measuring humidity. When placed near plants or other green things like grasses or mosses, these sensors measure their specific needs based on their natural environments and adjust accordingly so they can thrive in any environment.
I know that the Flower Power Sensor isn’t for everyone. It’s a niche product, and it does have its limitations—it can only track eight sensors at once; its app isn’t as intuitive or user-friendly as some other garden apps I’ve used in the past. But if you want to keep track of what kind of plants are growing where in your garden, this is an excellent tool that will help you do just that!
