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.

在更严格的资源限制下，越来越多的人管理更多的土地。水和劳动力列为受限资源的清单，但种植者对时间，更复杂的操作以及更不确定的天气也面临着更多的需求。通常，种植者雇用顾问经常检查领域并做出决定。这些顾问越来越依靠传感器数据来优先访问哪些字段。存在用于测量天气和土壤水分的硬件，例如安排灌溉，其中一些硬件具有将数据卸载到云数据库中供用户查看的能力。硬件公司通常专注于出售单个传感器（例如土壤水分），而不是为所有种植者的决策需求提供完整的解决方案。拟议的创新与卫星遥感和天气预报合成现场传感器数据，以提供有关即将到来的工作的警报，通知和建议。由于所提出的传感器枢纽是灵活的，因此决策支持选项的种类远大于其竞争对手。这支I-Corps团队开发了一个低成本的蜂窝手机POD（PulsePod），该POD（PulsePod）比市场上可比的产品便宜10倍。 PulsePod是一个小型低功率，低成本的传感器平台，专为环境科学中的全球应用而设计。可以将各种自我描述的传感器插入主要枢纽，以解决各种问题，通常集中于植物对环境的反应。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，以允许实时远程决策支持。现有技术很昂贵，难以使用，并且不充分整合到互联网上。相比之下，PulsePod是经济的，易于使用的，并且明确设计以将数据获取到云上。