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The Openly Published Environmental Sensing lab (OPEnS found at a Open-Sensing.org) has four years of experience with development of transformative solutions to environmental sensing problems.  Much of our focus is on water: measuring turbidity, pH, dissolved solids, temperature, depth, isotopic constituents, flow, evaporation, rainfall, and presence in soil.  We seek to leverage the convergent opportunities of assembling of micro-controllers, emerging sensors, 3-D printing, and wireless telemetry.  The lab muscle is provided entirely by undergraduates, with about 40 students hired in the school year, and 25 in the summer to lead up system development.  They are supported by a Principal Investigator (Prof Selker); lab director (Prof Udell); and a Logistics Coordinator (MS Walter), funded by the USDA and NSF. OPEnS has 20 projects ongoing, with installations occurring from Kenya to Switzerland.  Several OPEnS projects are nearing commercialization, while seemingly incongruously, all the projects are completely open source!  

This project presenter is available for live video chat on Sept. 1, 2020 from 1:00 - 2:45 p.m. PDT.