Alex Tang ¹ and Tyler Boulom ² , ¹ USA, ² Woodbury University, USA

California agriculture faces the combined pressures of severe drought, high crop-waste rates, and unaffordable commercial precision-agriculture platforms, which together disproportionately affect small and mid-sized growers. This paper proposes an integrated plant-health monitoring platform that combines a Raspberry-Pi field node for image capture and environmental sensing, a multimodal vision model for species identification and health assessment, and a Flutter mobile client that presents results to the grower through a simple dashboard. The client implements a layered fallback between the live Pi, an on-disk cache, and a bundled sample dataset so that it remains functional under intermittent connectivity, and it caches plant images transparently to accelerate repeated views. Two experiments evaluated the system: species identification reached 87.5 percent accuracy across four visually similar species, and time-to-first-paint ranged from 0.38 seconds on cached data to 1.34 seconds under degraded networks. The platform demonstrates that practical precision agriculture is achievable at consumer-hardware scale.

Artificial Intelligence, Precision Agriculture, Plant Health Monitoring, Crop Waste, Soil Conditions, Internet of Things, Mobile Computing