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CEP011 – Environmental Monitoring with Conservify
1 hour 11 minutes Posted Feb 19, 2021 at 3:49 pm.
Introduction
Conservify team introduction
Deploying electronics into harsh environments
Using off the shelf components
Monitoring water levels in the Amazon river basin
How did scientists measure things in the past?
Correlating data in the past
Open source in field science
FieldKit Hardware
Accomodating different hardware needs
Hardware details
Power requirements for the field
Unexpected customer requests
Community contributed hardware / firmware
Data visualization
FieldKit.org demo
Publishing without hardware
Who is using FieldKit?
Pilot program with NYC
Upcoming air quality kit
Giveaway of FieldKit stations
Focus on affordability
Deploying more non-profit FieldKits
Where to find more info
Hackaday Prize
Summary and wrap-up
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Show notes
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
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