Stefano Calvo
An energy autonomous electronic transmitting system for green plant sensing applications.
Rel. Danilo Demarchi, Alessandro Sanginario, Umberto Garlando. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Nanotechnologies For Icts, 2020
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This dissertation deals with the design of a completely autonomous electronic transmitting system meant to be applied in plant sensing applications. It is grafted on a previously performed study carried on tobacco plants. It concerned the study of the variation of plant stem's electrical impedance with respect to the drying process and analysis carried to understand which is the best frequency range for signal propagation. It has been found that electrical impedance grows over time if no watering events occur, and it decreases right after the plant gets water. This mechanism offers a considerable possibility: understanding plant health conditions inspecting its impedance by directly exploiting electrical signals propagation inside it.
This kind of analysis has never been done: watering status information has always been acquired through the reading of external sensors (for example, soil humidity, sun irradiation, and temperature) or human knowledge
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