The Contextual Electronics Podcast

CEP011 – Environmental Monitoring with Conservify

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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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