News-Gazette (March 2) -- Oso Technologies has won plenty of acclaim for its idea of a system that monitors how much water your lawn, garden or houseplant needs. For the last couple weeks, the company's five full-time employees have been programming PlantLink base stations and links in their office in downtown Champaign. They've also been packaging the systems for shipment to a distribution center in California, which in turn will send the products to supporters of PlantLink's successful Kickstarter campaign.that generated $96,690 within a month.