Gloxinia—An Open-Source Sensing Platform to Monitor the Dynamic Responses of Plants
The study of the dynamic responses of plants to short-term environmental changes is becoming increasingly important in basic plant science, phenotyping, breeding, crop management, and modelling. These short-term variations are crucial in plant adaptation to new environments and, consequently, in pla...
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doaj-99100401842e482f874d172f72a24ef52020-11-25T03:01:10ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-05-01203055305510.3390/s20113055Gloxinia—An Open-Source Sensing Platform to Monitor the Dynamic Responses of PlantsOlivier Pieters0Tom De Swaef1Peter Lootens2Michiel Stock3Isabel Roldán-Ruiz4Francis wyffels5IDLab-AIRO – Ghent University – imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, 9052 Zwijnaarde, BelgiumPlant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Caritasstraat 39, 9090 Melle, BelgiumPlant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Caritasstraat 39, 9090 Melle, BelgiumKERMIT, Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, 9000 Ghent, BelgiumPlant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Caritasstraat 39, 9090 Melle, BelgiumIDLab-AIRO – Ghent University – imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, 9052 Zwijnaarde, BelgiumThe study of the dynamic responses of plants to short-term environmental changes is becoming increasingly important in basic plant science, phenotyping, breeding, crop management, and modelling. These short-term variations are crucial in plant adaptation to new environments and, consequently, in plant fitness and productivity. Scalable, versatile, accurate, and low-cost data-logging solutions are necessary to advance these fields and complement existing sensing platforms such as high-throughput phenotyping. However, current data logging and sensing platforms do not meet the requirements to monitor these responses. Therefore, a new modular data logging platform was designed, named Gloxinia. Different sensor boards are interconnected depending upon the needs, with the potential to scale to hundreds of sensors in a distributed sensor system. To demonstrate the architecture, two sensor boards were designed—one for single-ended measurements and one for lock-in amplifier based measurements, named Sylvatica and Planalta, respectively. To evaluate the performance of the system in small setups, a small-scale trial was conducted in a growth chamber. Expected plant dynamics were successfully captured, indicating proper operation of the system. Though a large scale trial was not performed, we expect the system to scale very well to larger setups. Additionally, the platform is open-source, enabling other users to easily build upon our work and perform application-specific optimisations.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/11/3055plant monitoringreal-timedata acquisitionsensor platformphenotyping |
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Gloxinia—An Open-Source Sensing Platform to Monitor the Dynamic Responses of Plants |
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Gloxinia—An Open-Source Sensing Platform to Monitor the Dynamic Responses of Plants |
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Gloxinia—An Open-Source Sensing Platform to Monitor the Dynamic Responses of Plants |
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The study of the dynamic responses of plants to short-term environmental changes is becoming increasingly important in basic plant science, phenotyping, breeding, crop management, and modelling. These short-term variations are crucial in plant adaptation to new environments and, consequently, in plant fitness and productivity. Scalable, versatile, accurate, and low-cost data-logging solutions are necessary to advance these fields and complement existing sensing platforms such as high-throughput phenotyping. However, current data logging and sensing platforms do not meet the requirements to monitor these responses. Therefore, a new modular data logging platform was designed, named Gloxinia. Different sensor boards are interconnected depending upon the needs, with the potential to scale to hundreds of sensors in a distributed sensor system. To demonstrate the architecture, two sensor boards were designed—one for single-ended measurements and one for lock-in amplifier based measurements, named Sylvatica and Planalta, respectively. To evaluate the performance of the system in small setups, a small-scale trial was conducted in a growth chamber. Expected plant dynamics were successfully captured, indicating proper operation of the system. Though a large scale trial was not performed, we expect the system to scale very well to larger setups. Additionally, the platform is open-source, enabling other users to easily build upon our work and perform application-specific optimisations. |
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plant monitoring real-time data acquisition sensor platform phenotyping |
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