The AVA Byte is the first indoor smart garden to combine hydroponics (growing plants without soil) with artificial intelligence. It comes with five soil-free, transplantable and compostable pre-seeded plant pods. Simply place your pods into the unit and fill the reservoir with water, then sync with your smart device. The Byte depends on LED lights that emit a mixture of red, white and blue light to encourage growth, fruiting and flowering regardless of your home environment. Using technology inspired by NASA’s growing systems, Ava Byte automatically adjusts lighting and self-waters your plants making them grow upto three times faster. Its companion iOS and Android app helps you monitor water and light levels, optimize plant growth and set alerts for refilling the reservoir and harvesting the plants. The Byte is also compatible with Amazon Alexa, Google Home and other connected home devices. An HD camera allows users to make time-lapse videos of their plants.
The indoor garden comes with ready-to-grow compostable pods that are soil-free and totally self-sufficient. With seeds, plant food, and plant-based spongy growing material all in one neat little package, this is probably the least work gardening has ever been. Each garden comes with a five-pack of pods.
“Growing your own food is a vote against the way the food system is today. Being food-lovers, we wanted to start a food revolution,” said Valerie Song, co-founder and CEO of AVA Technologies. “Unfortunately, unlike houses with large backyards, a condo-dweller like myself is restricted by lack of space and access to sunlight.” But that obviously isn’t a problem with the Byte.
Available in white, space grey, or a carbon black finish, the garden ought to complement any decor, and can also be mounted to the wall, creating a vertical farm. The Byte is also compatible with Alexa, Google Home, and other connected home devices.
“The world is undergoing a massive transition into a new future of food and agricultural systems” added Mike Nasseri, Urban Futurist, AVA Technologies. “AVA Byte will help push the awareness curve that is required to advance the adoption curve of the new technologies being used at scale to address our current issues in agricultural production and consumption.”
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