Tutorial: Monitoring soil moisture with Amazon IoT and Raspberry Pi

This tutorial shows you how to use a Raspberry Pi, a moisture sensor, and Amazon IoT to monitor the soil moisture level for a house plant or garden. The Raspberry Pi runs code that reads the moisture level and temperature from the sensor and then sends the data to Amazon IoT. You create a rule in Amazon IoT that sends an email to an address subscribed to an Amazon SNS topic when the moisture level falls below a threshold.

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Prerequisites

To complete this tutorial, you need:

An Amazon Web Services account.
An IAM user with administrator permissions.
A development computer running Windows, macOS, Linux, or Unix to access the Amazon IoT console.
A Raspberry Pi 3B or 4B running the latest Raspbian OS. For installation instructions, see Installing operating system images on the Rasberry Pi website.
A monitor, keyboard, mouse, and Wi-Fi network or Ethernet connection for your Raspberry Pi.
A Raspberry Pi-compatible moisture sensor. The sensor used in this tutorial is an Adafruit STEMMA I2C Capacitive Moisture Sensor with a JST 4-pin to female socket cable header.

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Tutorial: Monitoring soil moisture with Amazon IoT and Raspberry Pi

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