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A garden that can tell you its ‘mood’ will be part of next year’s Chelsea Flower Show, as experts say artificial intelligence (AI) could improve the sustainability of gardening. It’s planned.
Chelsea Gold Medal winner Tom Massey is bringing an AI-assisted garden to the world-famous flower show, developed in collaboration with Microsoft and sponsored by technology company Avanade, using the technology to help gardeners assist in the care of
Analyze data from sensors throughout your garden to optimize watering, feeding, and other gardening requirements to ensure plants can thrive in their environment in the face of climate change.
Massey said the garden will continue as a community space in London after the show and will still look very green and organic, adding: “AI didn’t design the garden, AI cared for it. We are supporting gardeners who do this.”
“A series of sensors and monitors will be installed to take various measurements such as soil moisture, soil pH and nutrient levels, allowing gardeners to ask questions of the garden such as how is it feeling and what does it need?
“The garden responds in a conversational way, like it needs a little more water or could use a haircut.”
He also said there will be a digital version of the garden that will be able to study things like tree survival, soil moisture and carbon performance in future climates.
He said the technology could address issues such as water wastage.
“Rather than replacing people, AI has the potential to become a tool that empowers people to grow and collaborate more sustainably,” he suggested.
Avanade’s Annette Giardina says AI has increased energy consumption, but the more models are trained, the less power they consume, for example by locating data centers in areas that can generate excessive heat. He said it has the potential to be more sustainable. Used for heating inside buildings.
“Part of what we do in the garden is to be able to track the water status of the soil, to be able to track if the plants need to be fed, to have the sprinklers pop up. Just to be able to make sure you’re not overwatering is because swirling can be tied to weather forecasts.
“More importantly, if we take it a little further, it helps us understand the biodiversity in our gardens and helps us understand what to plant in the area that we are in, the soil.
“So there are some disadvantages, but there are also a lot of advantages.”
The Royal Horticultural Society, which runs the Chelsea Flower Show, is also using AI to build a knowledge bank of cultivated plants for specific uses, such as supporting pollinators and other wildlife, helping with pollution and carbon capture, and water management. announced that it would be used.
The company has already introduced the ChatBotanist tool, which members and users of the RHS Grow app can use to give advice to gardeners, while advisers will be able to provide advice on planting options and techniques for UK gardens. They say they can conduct surveys that will help provide information.
