AVA Smart Garden

AVA Smart Garden
client
AVA Technologies Inc.
expertise & services
Concept development
Industrial design
User experience testing
Mechanical engineering
System architecture
Design for manufacturing
year
2019

Combining Technology and Nature to Create the Smartest Hydroponic Garden on the Market

overview

Combining technology and nature to create the smartest hydroponic garden on the market, the AVA Smart Garden is capable of predicting and establishing optimal lighting and watering schedules based on plant type, location, and an array of environment condition sensors.

The Challenge

Design the first hydroponic smart garden driven by AI to predict and establish optimal lighting and watering schedules based on plant type, location, and an array of sensors that measure environmental conditions. Make it seamlessly integrate with Google Home and Amazon Alexa powered smart homes.

The AVA Smart Garden on a plain white background, side by side with one slightly in front of the other; one is shown from the front, the other is shown from the back.
A render of the AVA Smart Garden from the front, showcasing the bottom reservoir.
The AVA Smart Garden on a wooden countertop with a seafoam coloured Google Nest Mini. The AVA Smart Garden is lit purple and is growing an assortment of herbs.
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The Outcome

The AVA Byte Smart Garden is the recipient of the prestigious Good Design Award (2019) for outstanding products in the Consumer Household Products category, and has launched in select countries throughout the world including Canada and the United States.

A 3/4 view render of the AVA Smart Garden on a plain white background.
A closeup photo of the AVA Smart Garden camera module and lights.
The AVA Smart Garden app displayed on an iPhone X.
The AVA Smart Garden from a front-on view on a cream coloured background, growing some herbs.
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Technology Meets Nature

With an IoT device as complex as the AVA Byte, we committed a significant amount of time to deep research in a wide number of subjects not only technology related, but stressing the importance of immersing ourselves in botany and plant science; such as light spectra, plant growth cycles, general hydroponics, gardening, and plant cultivation.

We were presented with many challenges during the development of the AVA Byte, but through product benchmarking, research, manufacturing and tooling, designing and redesigning several prototype iterations we established a set of design goals for the AVA Byte that would need to be achieved in order for the product to establish its place as the best commercially available smart garden:

  • Introduce and engineer a lighting and watering system that is capable of learning and adapting to its local environment based on user inputs, habits, and interactions.

  • Combine several technologies to establish a functional, standalone system—the implementation of fully adjustable lighting, visual capture with a built-in camera, efficient heat dissipation, even water distribution, multiple sensor, data transfer, and machine learning—all working in tandem.

  • Develop a user experience that is charming, pleasurable, and enlightening, based on finely tuned and tested hardware and software at all stages of development.

  • Produce an aesthetically pleasing, premium, yet robust product by conducting a thorough and rigorous series of FCC testing benchmarks to ensure that the product passes all required certifications for commercial launch.
An exploded render of the AVA Smart Garden.
The AVA Smart Garden in a charcoal grey colour from a 3/4 view on a cream coloured background, growing basil.
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