CEP011 – Environmental Monitoring with Conservify

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 Thank you for supporting The Contextual Electronics Podcast! Here’s how you can follow and help us grow: Please follow us on social media: @ContextualElec on Twitter Contextual Electronics on Facebook Contextual Electronics on LinkedIn @Chris_Gammell on Twitter Please consider leaving us a review iTunes page for subscribing and reviewing Video version of the podcast: Audio version