Bitponics Personal Gardening Assistant System Automates Hydroponic Growing to Improve and Simplify Urban Gardening for the Masses
Who would have thought that two computer geeks transplanted from California to Brooklyn, New York would come together to create the next great, green innovation for urban gardening in the cloud? Well that is exactly what happened when Amit Kumar teamed up with Michael Zick Doherty to create Bitponics, a base station monitoring device and an online dashboard and website that work synergistically in the cloud to simplify hydroponic gardening for everyone.
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| Amit (left) has been a software engineer for 7 years and a plant lover for 20. He's delivered code for companies including Nike, Verizon, and Barnes & Noble. Michael (right) is a recent graduate of ITP, and is currently active in several urban agriculture initiatives in NYC and teaches physical computing, software programming, and alternative methods for growing in urban environments. Watch Amit and Michael explain Bitponics |
Plug in and logon to Bitponics, the first ever integrated cloud based hydroponic automation growing system. Designed to be an add-on to any existing hydroponics system, Bitponics will simplify and automate the urban home garden by managing the plants' needs, incorporating a crowdsourced online database for best practices and sending even the most inexperienced, urban hydroponics gardener, friendly and convenient reminders.
