PLANTS DEMO - Enabling mixed societies of communicating plants and artefacts

Barton, John; O'Flynn, Brendan; Aherne, Kevin; Morrissey, Anthony; Cassells, Alan; Drossos, Nikos; Goumopoulos, Christos; Tooke, Fiona; Whitbread-Abrutat, Peter

PLANTS DEMO - Enabling mixed societies of communicating plants and artefacts

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Date

2006

Authors

Barton, John

O'Flynn, Brendan

Aherne, Kevin

Morrissey, Anthony

Cassells, Alan

Drossos, Nikos

Goumopoulos, Christos

Tooke, Fiona

Whitbread-Abrutat, Peter

Abstract

Several applications, such as precision farming, military field monitoring and seismic activity monitoring require reliable and extended lifetime deployments of potentially a very large number of wireless sensor and actuator nodes. As hardware becomes cheaper and smaller, more of these applications are likely to appear, particularly as these miniaturised nodes offer the opportunity for the electronics to be embedded unobtrusively into everyday objects. This paper will present results from an EU funded project, PLANTS. PLANTS is a research project devising a novel technology that will allow plants to control their own environments. Using this technology, plant signals are detected, analysed and an appropriate response activated. The PLANTS system automatically responds to a plant's needs.

Keywords

Plant signals , Response

Citation

Barton, J., O'Flynn, B., Aherne, K., Morrissey, A., Cassells, A., Drossos, N., Goumopoulos, C., Tooke, F. and Whitbread-Abrutat, P. (2006) 'PLANTS DEMO - Enabling mixed societies of communicating plants and artefacts', Pervasive Computing: 4th International Conference, PERVASIVE 2006, Dublin, 7-10 May.