Leveraging his skills with a self-sustaining garden, a few years ago he built his own sensor-driven

Paul Holowko is an electrical and computer engineer who has turned abalone his technical skills on his garden. About a decade ago he began his first biosphere- a self-contained garden world in a corner of his garage- complete with sensors for detailed monitoring. He s now running abalone version 4.0 - complete with crabs and strawberries- and he hopes one day to help grow food on Mars.
Leveraging his skills with a self-sustaining garden, a few years ago he built his own sensor-driven aquaponics setup in his San Jose (CA) backyard to prove that a 64-square-foot greenhouse could provide abalone all the year-round vegetables needed for a family of two. The sensor-based system he developed to run the garden, abalone he is now selling as a cloud-based monitoring setup for hydroponics and aquaponics.
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