ahmedabad for most plant lovers leaving their potted plants unattended at home while they are travelling seems a sad story to relieve plant growers of this dilemma graduates of the national institute of design nid have developed an intelligent flower pot and an app that will help the plants water themselves greenopia an internetenabled advanced smart gardening kit that consists of one or multiple smart pots and a mobile application that helps a user monitor and take care of their plants remotely the smart pot has sensors that detect the status of a plantlike whether its receiving enough water and sunlight or if soil conditions are optimum we usually see that plants die when we come back from a trip the smart pot has a button which when pressed through the app will squirt water in the required quantity so the user can water the plants even when he is not at home said mani h k who has cofounded greenopia with fellow nidians mayukhini pande devyani jain and veethika mishra the idea was born after the students tried to grow plants individually but failed launched last month the product is targeted at urban residents who love to grow plants but are too busy to take care of them the smart kit comes with a smart pot that has a 15 litre capacity tank an app and a seed kit we are taking the initiative global with a crowdfunding campaign we are backed by rajan anand md of google india in crowdfunding said mayukhini an nid graduate of 2011 who runs a design consultancy firm in ahmedabad recently parisbased technology company parrot launched a smart flower pot that detects whether your plant has enough light and fertilizer and even waters it for you