Revolutionizing Urban Farming: How NTSEC’s Rooftop Garden Uses Smart Dashboards to Integrate Education and Data.

Rooftop agriculture is becoming an important setting for urban greening and educational exhibitions. However, challenging conditions such as strong winds, intense sunlight, and rapid evapotranspiration make management difficult:

• Rapid Water Evaporation: This frequently leads to plants dying from dehydration or drought.
• Reliance on Experience: Traditional watering relies heavily on manual experience, lacking the support of real-time data.
• Lack of Interactive Tools: When trying to conduct exhibitions or educational teaching, there is a lack of interactive methods and explanatory tools.

The roof garden on the 11th floor of the National Taiwan Science Education Center (NTSEC) faced similar challenges. They chose to introduce smart agricultural sensing equipment and a customized dashboard system, creating an urban micro-farm that can be "demonstrated and easily understood by the public."



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The NTSEC roof garden is divided into three major areas:

1. Ecological Garden: The flora consists primarily of perennial plants, creating a diverse landscape. Free from traditional planter box designs, visitors can stroll through the scenery, and the venue can be flexibly utilized to host various types of activities.
2. Bee Garden: Populated mainly with nectar plants, this area provides a suitable habitat for bees to live and reproduce, helping visitors understand the critical role bees play in the environmental ecosystem.
3. Experimental Garden: This section features four cultivation beds for experimental crops. Combining the farming area with IoT (Internet of Things) technology, it promotes popular science, smart agriculture, and food and agricultural education.

Every area is equipped with AgriWeather's automatic irrigation system and Soil Sensor 3-in-1, which can transmit the following data to a customized dashboard in real time.



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Many general-purpose agricultural platforms on the market cannot fit the specific needs of exhibition venues and educational applications. NTSEC chose a proprietary dashboard interface designed by AgriWeather, which offers the following advantages:

1. Real-Time Visualized Data, Easy for the Public to Understand at a Glance
   • Tour guides can explain soil data in real time alongside the physical garden.
   • The display screen dynamically updates data, enhancing exhibition interactivity.
2. Integrated Application for Educational Activities
   • The system can be paired with curriculum to launch "Observation Diaries" and "Moisture Experiments."It guides students to observe the interconnected relationship of "Data Changes → Plant Responses."
3. Multi-Sensor Integration for One-Stop Management
   • It simultaneously displays the status of multiple sensor nodes across different areas (e.g., FD-476, FD-548).
   • It supports historical data review and trend analysis.



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Whether you are a technology park, an agribusiness, or a campus agricultural education site, here are the problems you might encounter and the solutions this system can provide:



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AgriWeather creates customized dashboard systems specifically tailored for urban agriculture and educational exhibition venues. This system not only boosts cultivation efficiency but also elevates the communication power and educational value of your venue.

📩 Want to build your own smart agriculture dashboard? Welcome to contact us!

We believe that:
👉 A small garden can also be a classroom where "knowledge is visible."
👉 A dashboard is the starting point for a "dialogue between science and life."



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Q1: Can this dashboard system only be used for roof gardens?
A1: It is not limited to roof gardens. The system is also highly suitable for campus farms, corporate exhibition fields, outdoor education venues, and green spaces in technology parks. The sensor configuration and dashboard design can be customized to fit different types of venues.

Q2: What size of venue is this system suitable for?
A2: Whether it is a small 10-pyeong (approx. 33 square meters) educational garden or a large exhibition area and rooftop green space spanning hundreds of pyeong, we can provide the right number of sensors and matching management interfaces. The system is highly flexible and scalable, supporting everything from single-point observation to multi-area integration.

Q3: Can I add other sensors or control systems (such as watering or lighting) in the future?
A3: Yes, absolutely. We offer a modular design where sensor data can be linked to irrigation control, automatic shading, and other smart management equipment. You can adjust the functionalities based on your venue's evolving needs, allowing the entire system to upgrade step-by-step.

Q4: We are neither a school nor an agribusiness. Can we still implement this system?
A4: Of course. Our clients include community organizations, construction companies, urban renewal units, public art teams, exhibition design agencies, and more. As long as you want to simultaneously present nature, technology, and intellectual interaction within a space, this system is worth implementing.