CEP011 – Environmental Monitoring with Conservify

The Contextual Electronics Podcast

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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