Soil Moisture Sensor
Venture Category: Food and Agriculture
Community: Sensorica
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Objectives
Objectives
Traditionally, resistivity or capacitance are used to measure soil moisture. Open source moisture sensors that everyone uses with Arduinos are based on electrical resistance measurements. First, they are known to rust very fast. Second, soil conductivity in soils is very sensitive to ionic concentrations, or amount of salts for example. The goal of this project is to explore optical methods to measure moisture in soils.
The idea is to test a simple optical fiber-based moisture transducer.
Description
Description
Contents
Contents
Communication and coordination
Communication and coordination
Communication channels
Communication channels
Messaging: Discord
For more generic discussions: Main Sensorica mailing list or Open forum
Social media: Sensorica Facebook page
Coordination tools
Coordination tools
Planning
Planning
Status: Prototyping - dormant
Needs
electronics engineering
optical engineering
facilitation, coordination and outreach
Notes
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In prototyping. Project is currently dormant.
Documentation repository
Documentation repository
Incentives
Incentives
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Economic model
Economic model
The short-term economic model for this venture is based mostly on public funding and crowdfunding.
The long-term economic model for this venture is built around open innovation and distributed manufacturing (DIY).
In short, for the long run, we're geared towards providing:
DIY kits (can be transactional kit sales) that provide required vitamins (non-digitally manufactured components) to build a particular tool (Zimmermann, 2014; Gibney, 2016).
Specialty parts / components, hard-to-find, custom (ex. BackYard Brains or OpenQCM both sell the most specialized and hardest to source components for their respective open hardware tools).
Help with calibrating and validating (scientific) hardware (can be transactional service) to provide security to prosumers who build their own tools. This provides prosumers with the confidence that their measurements or functionality are acceptably reproducible, accurate and precise.
Education / Training (ex. Open Source Ecology), include support. This can also follow the consulting business model (Fjelsted et al., 2012).
Ecosystem services: provide trust, validation, discoverability, help, a place to discuss and collaborate, etc.
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