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Flora Monitoring with a Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell

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Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society (ApplePies 2016)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 429))

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Plant-Microbial Fuel Cells are a promising technology as energy supplier for many different applications in precision agriculture and environmental monitoring. In this article, we discuss and analyze the possibility to use it also a small scale biosensor to monitor a plant health and report information with an embedded wireless sensor node. We present a prototype that exploits the electric energy generated by bacteria to power the embedded electronics and some sensors, while the rate of energy generation is used as a feedback on plant’s health state.

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Acknowledgements

The Authors would like to acknowledge the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto—CARITRO, that supported this activity. Moreover, the research contribution presented in this paper is included within the IEEE Smart Cities initiative.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Davide Brunelli, Pietro Tosato & Maurizio Rossi

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Brunelli, D., Tosato, P., Rossi, M. (2018). Flora Monitoring with a Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell. In: De Gloria, A. (eds) Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society. ApplePies 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 429. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55071-8_6

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