I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden
Summary
The article narrates how the author turned a small garden into an instrumented, agent-driven system. It describes collecting telemetry with soil sensors, a weather station, and a camera, storing data in LakehouseBox using Iceberg tables, and orchestrating watering decisions via a hosted agent that acts on historical data, forecasts, and visual evidence. It highlights open formats, data sovereignty, and a shift from traditional IoT dashboards to a memory-enabled, explainable automation workflow.