CEP011 – Environmental Monitoring with Conservify
- Author
- Contextual Electronics
- Published
- Fri 19 Feb 2021
- Episode Link
- https://contextualelectronics.com/cep011-environmental-monitoring-with-conservify/
Welcome, Conservify!
Our guests today
Show Notes
- Conservify is creating the FieldKit, a new modular system for environmental monitoring for research scientists and citizen scientists.
- FieldKit goes arboreal
- Testing for wild hardware
- Open source! Check out the hardware and firmware on Github
- The hardware
- Winning The Hackaday Prize
Time tags:
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:11 Conservify team introduction
- 6:20 Deploying electronics into harsh environments
- 10:35 Using off the shelf components
- 12:29 Monitoring water levels in the Amazon river basin
- 14:20 How did scientists measure things in the past?
- 20:23 Correlating data in the past
- 22:49 Open source in field science
- 23:22 FieldKit Hardware
- 28:11 Accomodating different hardware needs
- 31:30 Hardware details
- 34:20 Power requirements for the field
- 36:48 Unexpected customer requests
- 38:40 Community contributed hardware / firmware
- 44:50 Data visualization
- 48:10 FieldKit.org demo
- 52:35 Publishing without hardware
- 55:28 Who is using FieldKit?
- 57:25 Pilot program with NYC
- 58:30 Upcoming air quality kit
- 1:03:10 Giveaway of FieldKit stations
- 1:05:22 Focus on affordability
- 1:06:14 Deploying more non-profit FieldKits
- 1:07:32 Where to find more info
- 1:08:35 Hackaday Prize
- 1:09:32 Summary and wrap-up
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