Team Git GoodpresentFlora Finder
Flora Finder Demo Video
Find and identify plants, compete with your friends
Flora Finder is an innovative mobile application that transforms your smartphone into a portable botanist. Using image recognition technology and a database of plant species, the app allows users to quickly identify flowers, trees, and other plants by simply taking a photo.
Upon opening the app, users are greeted with a clean, intuitive interface featuring a camera button. Once a photo is taken or uploaded, Flora Finder analyses the image and provides detailed information about the plant, including its common and scientific names, characteristics etc.
Successfully identifying plants earns points, and users can track their progress on a leaderboard. This gamification aspect not only makes learning about flora more engaging but also encourages outdoor exploration and citizen science.
The app's league table ranks users based on their identification accuracy and the number of unique species they've cataloged. The league table helps in, fostering a sense of community among plant enthusiasts. Additionally, users can create their own virtual collection, saving and categorising their plant discoveries for future reference.
Flora Finder an useful tool for gardeners, hikers, students, and anyone curious about the natural world around them.
The Team
Alex Hughes
James Wallace
Kate Blacklock
Esther Gines
Yusha Rooshenas
Technologies
We used: JavaScript, Node.js, express, MySQL AWS, React Native, Expo Go
To increase our skill set for mobile development and cloud technologies
Challenges Faced
Synchronisation of the front end and back end was a challenge we has some teething issues with MySQL dropping tables tables that took a short while to debug.