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CEP011 – Environmental Monitoring with Conservify

CEP011 – Environmental Monitoring with Conservify

posted on February 19, 2021

Welcome, Conservify!

Our guests today

  • Shah Selbe
  • Jacob Lewallen
  • Bradley Gawthrop

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
    • FieldKit weather
    • Fieldkit enclosure
    • Upper / Lower / Modules
    • Solar and batteries
  • 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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