摘要
The microclimate surrounding a plant has major effect on its health and photosynthesis process,where certain plants struggle in suboptimal environmental conditions and unbalanced levels of humidity and temperature.The ability to remotely track and correlate the effect of local environmental conditions on the healthy growth of plants can have great impact for increasing survival rate of plants and augmenting agriculture output.This necessitates the widespread distribution of lightweight sensory devices on the surface of each plant.Using flexible and biocompatible materials coupled with a smart compact design for a low power and lightweight system,we develop widely deployed,autonomous,and compliant wearables for plants.The demonstrated wearables integrate temperature,humidity and strain sensors,and can be intimately deployed on the soft surface of any plant to remotely and continuously evaluate optimal growth settings.This is enabled through simultaneous detection of environmental conditions while quantitatively tracking the growth rate(viz.elongation).Finally,we establish a nature-inspired origami-assembled 3D-printed“PlantCopter”,used as a launching platform for our plant wearable to enable widespread microclimate monitoring in large fields.
基金
This publication is based on the work supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(KAUST)Office of Sponsored Research(OSR)under Award No.Sensor Innovation Initiative OSR-2015-Sensors-2707
KAUST-KFUPM Special Initiative OSR-2016-KKI-2880.
作者简介
Joanna M.Nassar,These authors contributed equally;Sherjeel M.Khan.These authors contributed equally;Correspondence:Muhammad M.Hussain(muhammadmustafa.hussain@kaust.edu.sa)。
