Enter the ecoids

My banana-growing project Foreign Soil entered an exciting new phase last week, with a field trip to the site of my future plantation: West Town Farm at Ide. I was working with Chris Hunt, an MRes Digital Art and Technology student at Plymouth University, to install a number of data loggers loaned by i-DAT.   

Known as ecoids they allow remote sensing of environmental factors such as light levels, temperature, humidity and wind strength. We're running a month-long pilot project, to see how the technology gets on with the farm and the farm gets on with the technology. If things go well, we'll install them across a wider area for a longer period of time in the hopes of finding microclimates where tender plants might thrive. http://britishbanana.blogspot.co.uk/