2021/02/20 by Jianing Fang, Chuheng Hu, Fang, Jianing +23
Environmental Science · #FOS: Electrical engineering #Smart Materials for Construction #Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2102.10260
openalex publication_date 2021/02/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We discuss the history and lessons learned from a series of deployments of environmental sensors measuring soil parameters and CO2 fluxes over the last fifteen years, in an outdoor environment. We present the hardware and software architecture of our current Gen-3 system, and then discuss how we are simplifying the user facing part of the software, to make it easier and friendlier for the environmental scientist to be in full control of the system. Finally, we describe the current effort to build a large-scale Gen-4 sensing platform consisting of hundreds of nodes to track the environmental parameters for urban green spaces in Baltimore, Maryland.