Indoor plant maintenance system (IPMS) is intended to be a consumer product. The product will provide plant owners with a convenient means of maintaining their indoor plants when they are absent for extended periods of time or seek to maintain the health of their plants while also making them low maintenance.

The engineering requirements for this project call for sensors which monitor the environment around the plant, controls which apply resources as needed, a wireless remote user interface to set the operating parameters, and intelligence to manage the system without constant human interaction. It combines inexpensive hardware components and custom software in a small package that is easily deployed, plus a web-based interface. From a marketing perspective, it is designed to be low cost and easy to use.