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sensing with sensors
- commercial, US only plant sensor & planting database > http://www.easybloom.com/buy/overview.html
- System for sensing electrical potential particularly in plants. Patent number: 4039942
- The 'Crescograph' invented by J.C.Bose
- Backster's polygraph experiments
- “Lawrence device” (c.f. lunch, ursa major, onion telescope) http://journal.borderlands.com/1997/detecting-biodynamic-signals-interstellar-communication/
- “Detecting Biodynamic Signals” by Michael Theroux > http://www.borderlands.com/archives/arch/detectin.htm
- “Als planten konden praten” sensoren in wageningen » http://library.wur.nl/file/wurpubs/wurpublikatie_i00365456_001.pdf
- plants on the phone botanicalls
- a pot plant that blogs from a japanese cafe > http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/10/midori-san-the-blogging-houseplant/
- Fertometer: http://www.fertometer.com/ (also has a quite detailed description of how it works: it's basically an electrical conductivity meter http://www.fertometer.com/specs.html. here is a page about making a DIY electical conductivity meter http://www.octiva.net/projects/ppm/)
- pH meter > http://blea.ch/wiki/index.php/PH_Meter
- environmental sensing > http://web.media.mit.edu/~fletcher/env-sensing/environmental-sensing.htm
various arduino/pachube projects
- http://community.pachube.com/node/709 which includes:
- greenhouse monitoring @sindono in Meppel, Netherlands
1010 biologic and sensing notes
measures
what can be measured?
- plant physiology
- moisture levels / tension
- action potentials (Reiss)
- […]
- environmental
- soil moisture
- pH level
- temperature (thermistor, or calibrated temp. sensor eg. LM35 or TD5A)
- humidity (eg. HS12P)
- uv / light levels (eg. photocells/photoresistor)
what can be observed or recorded 'subjectively'?
- plant
- species, common name, individual name
- general characteristics (eg. height, width, density, branches)
- leaf qualities (eg. shape, arrangement, simple/compound, etc)
- foliage qualities (eg. colour, shape, feel, density, etc)
- health & happiness (as observed by the gardener)
- favourite music
- the plant's environment
- what is it like?
plants producing electricity in Plant MFC ??
parts / products
current tests (200907)
pachube preview
light:
moisture:
Light Level:
http://apps.pachube.com/google_viz/preview.php?f=1951&d=0&w=600&h=150&g=FF0066
data formats
EEML “Extended Environments Markup Language (EEML), a protocol for sharing sensor data between remote responsive environments, both physical and virtual.” http://www.eeml.org/
“SensorML is an Open Geospatial Consortium standard markup language (using XML Schema) for providing descriptions of sensor systems. By design it supports a wide range of sensors, including both dynamic and stationary platforms and both in-situ and remote sensors.” SensorML
sensory
- “Plant neurobiology: an integrated view of plant signaling” > http://crb.colostate.edu/home/Design/Assets/papers/Brenner2006.pdf
- “Plants as Sensitive Agents” > http://www.borderlands.com/newstuff/research/plantsas.htm
- see also plant perception and HPI