I-Corps: Pulsepod: Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth

I-Corps：Pulsepod：将云带到地球

• 批准号: 1521077
• 负责人: Kelly Caylor
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-01 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1521077&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Pulsepod; Bringing; Cloud; Down

Increasingly, fewer people are managing more land under tighter resource restrictions. Water and labor top the list of constrained resources, but growers also face more demands on their time, more complex operations, and more uncertain weather. Most generally, growers hire consultants to frequently check fields and make decisions. Increasingly, these consultants rely on sensor data to prioritize which fields to visit. There exists hardware for measuring weather and soil moisture, for example to schedule irrigation, and some of this hardware has the capability of offloading data to a cloud database for users to view. Hardware companies are often focused on selling a single sensor - such as soil moisture - rather than providing a complete solution to all a grower?s decision-making needs. The proposed innovation synthesizes in-field sensor data with satellite remote sensing and weather forecasts to provide alerts, notices, and advice on upcoming jobs to do. Because the proposed sensor hub is flexible, the variety of decision support options is larger than its competitors.This I-Corps team has developed a low-cost cellular-enabled pod (Pulsepod) that is 10x less expensive than comparable products on the market. Pulsepod is a small, low-power, low-cost sensor platform designed for global applications in the environmental sciences. A variety of self-describing sensors can be plugged into the main hub to address a variety of questions, generally focused on the responses of plants to their environment. Data is transmitted over cellular, wifi, or even satellite networks onto a cloud-based software platform to allow real-time remote decision support. Existing technologies are expensive, hard to use, and not well integrated to the internet. By contrast, Pulsepod is economical, easy to use, and explicitly designed to get data onto the cloud.

越来越少的人在更严格的资源限制下管理更多的土地。水和劳动力是最受限制的资源，但种植者也面临着更多的时间需求，更复杂的操作和更不确定的天气。最常见的是，种植者聘请顾问经常检查田地并做出决定。这些顾问越来越多地依赖传感器数据来优先考虑要访问的领域。有一些硬件用于测量天气和土壤湿度，例如调度灌溉，其中一些硬件具有将数据卸载到云数据库供用户查看的能力。硬件公司通常专注于销售单个传感器-例如土壤湿度-而不是为所有种植者提供完整的解决方案？的决策需要。拟议的创新将现场传感器数据与卫星遥感和天气预报相结合，以提供警报，通知和即将进行的工作建议。由于拟议的传感器集线器是灵活的，决策支持选项的种类比竞争对手更大。这个I-Corps团队开发了一个低成本的蜂窝功能吊舱（Pulsepod），比市场上的同类产品便宜10倍。Pulsepod是一款小型、低功耗、低成本的传感器平台，专为全球环境科学应用而设计。各种自我描述的传感器可以插入到主集线器中，以解决各种问题，通常集中在植物对其环境的反应上。数据通过蜂窝、WiFi甚至卫星网络传输到基于云的软件平台上，以实现实时远程决策支持。现有的技术价格昂贵，难以使用，并且没有很好地集成到互联网上。相比之下，Pulsepod经济实惠，易于使用，并且明确设计用于将数据传输到云端。