Hi Team,
I have just started to understand FarmBot and I really appreciate your Idea and work. I mean it is really a fantastic product and a noble approach to opensource your work.
Based on some docs and videos, I understand the brain of the setup is a Raspberry Pi board. I wanted to know if you have any thoughts to migrate this component as a service, a PaaS service? I have thought about few advantages of doing so:
- Reduces the cost of the product.
- Management of the OS/software is maintained by you. No more over-the-air updates
- You have access to the data collected by every FarmBot. You can run an AI algo over it…++
So basically I migrate RPi software to a cloud as PaaS and use a less expensive WiFi/Bluetooth or any gateway like NodeMCU/ESP8266 to get connected to cloud.
It is highly possible that you have already thought about this. In that case I am curious to know more about it since I am new to this field and might miss out crucial information.Kindly guide me.
Thanks & Regards,
Arun Prasad