Smart Irrigation project presentation

1. Smart Irrigation
Andrea Fioraldi, Leonardo Sarra

2. The problem
- Rome has a lot of green areas
- But most of them are not maintained
and are dilapidated
- Because maintenance has a cost and
the city of Rome has poor organization
skills Piazza Venezia - Summer 2018

3. The greener the better
- Improved air quality. Trees remove smoke, dust
and other pollutants from the air.
- Reduced heat in urban areas by countering the
warming effects of paved surfaces, thus reducing
energy consumption.
- Privacy and tranquility. Well-placed plantings
offer privacy and tranquility by screening out
busy street noises and reducing glare from
headlights. -> Stress reduction
- Good landscaping increases community appeal.
Improves perceived value of municipal services
offered.

4. Our solution: a smart irrigation system
- Always connected
- Take informations from
environmental sensors (like
attendance, humidity and
temperature) in order to decide
when it’s better to irrigate
- Plan irrigation based on weather
- Improves green spaces quality and
optimizes water consumption

5. Fauna classification
- The idea of the smart irrigation system can
be expanded by adding fauna classification
for the green areas
- Sound sensors are needed
- We don’t spy on people’s conversations
- Only features extracted from the mel
spectrograms plot are important

6. Open data
- Informations about the sensors and the
green space quality can be collected
and exposed for everyone to be seen.
- We expect that some people are
interested in fauna informations.
- If available we could provide data about
attendances too
- Data may be used to decide when a
human maintenance of the green space
is needed

7. Info & Contacts
Andrea contacts:
● Twitter: @andreafioraldi
● GitHub: https://github.com/andreafioraldi
● LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-fioraldi/
Leonardo contacts:
● GitHub: https://github.com/LithiumSR/
● LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardo-sarra-b34691182/