CEP011 – Environmental Monitoring with Conservify
Conservify is creating the FieldKit, a new modular system for environmental monitoring for research scientists and citizen scientists. The engineering team joins Chris to talk about deploying measurement systems into harsh environments and how to make ...
The Contextual Electronics Podcast
February 19, 20211h 11m
Show Notes
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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