Common Garden

Common Garden is an IoT platform that uses open source software to make growing organisms easier. The job it does: connecting machines, sensors and robots to software that controls or monitors them.

The natural audience is manufacturers and operators. They also list Internet of Things and Open Source, so expect those to show up in the feature set. They are a very small team, 1 to 10 people, which usually shapes who they work with. Small vendors mean quick answers and real influence on the roadmap, but check who covers support when someone is out.

Common Garden is based in Oakland, California. More on commongarden.org.

Our checklist for this category: hardware compatibility, uptime, and support. Ask for a trial on your own data, not a canned demo.

If you have worked with Common Garden, tell the next buyer what you paid and what surprised you. That is the part of this page we cannot write.