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Sensor-native capture
Camera, GPS, compass and current weather are woven into each observation without extra manual input.
CASA0015 · Mobile Systems 2026
Every plant is a chapter.
UrbanFlora turns every walk through the city into a citizen-science biodiversity log. Snap a plant, choose from three ML candidates, and grow a personal codex enriched with GPS, compass heading and live weather context.
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ML candidates per scan
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Daily interaction stages
6+
Connected app services
What makes it different
UrbanFlora combines mobile sensing, plant recognition and light gamification to make everyday urban biodiversity more visible.
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ML you can correct
Pl@ntNet returns three species candidates with confidence scores, but the user still makes the final choice.
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A codex, not a feed
Finds are grouped by botanical family, turning repeated observations into a growing personal field guide.
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Meaningful streaks
A custom streak ring rewards daily noticing. It encourages return visits without making the app feel noisy.
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Daily digest
A calm end-of-day summary shows species, families and rare finds as mini-stories rather than push spam.
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Cloud-synced data
Firebase Auth and Firestore keep the codex available across devices, with scope for later data export.
How it works
The core experience is designed around a simple daily loop.
Notice
Onboarding encourages users to pay attention to plants during ordinary city walks.
Identify
Pl@ntNet returns the top three likely species, supported by confidence scores.
Collect
The selected plant is saved into the user’s codex with location and environmental context.
Reflect
The evening digest summarises what the user discovered and encourages another walk.
App screens
Real screens from the UrbanFlora prototype, showing the core user flow from onboarding to identification, collection and reflection.
From city walk to field note
The storyboard frames UrbanFlora as a lightweight noticing tool: a plant is seen, captured, identified and saved as part of a growing personal record.
Under the hood
UrbanFlora connects mobile UI, cloud storage, plant identification and environmental context services.
Flutter 3.24
Dart 3.5
Riverpod
go_router
Firebase Auth
Cloud Firestore
Firebase Storage
Pl@ntNet API
OpenWeatherMap
flutter_map + OSM
Material 3