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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