Project

PhytoSense: making sense of plant measurements

Acronym
PhytoSense
Code
179P03413
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Private funding via IWT/VLAIO
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Ecology
    • Environmental science and management
    • Other environmental sciences
Keywords
Plant health
 
Project description

The goal of this project is to develop a generic platform (PhytoSense) which, using wireless sensors and mathematical models plant, the health of plants easily and in real time can be monitored. Development PhytoSense wireless sensor network. Link existing sensors to a communications node. Measurements forward them to a central base station. Power from solar panels and rechargeable batteries.