Smart Phone, Smart Plants, Smart Gadget
Portable, in the Field Gadget, for Healthy Plants & Spot Disease
First of its Kind Device to Detect Plant Disease in Minutes
A new, smartphone powered device detects disease in plants. For the first time, plant disease can be detected by a portable device, used by a farmer in the field and the analysis is done on the spot within minutes. Up until now, plant analysis had to be done in a lab and that could take days or weeks. This smartphone powered device reads gas concentrations in a plant in the farm field real-time that reveal the presence of disease in plants.
Portable, on the Farm Device
This significant innovation was developed by a team at North Carolina State University. The device is designed to attach to a farmer's smart phone for quick crop analysis. This real-time turnaround is important to detect plant disease in order to limit the spread of it and the crop damage from it.
How the Tech Works
It is known that diseased plants emit volatile organic compounds (VOC). A sample leaf from a suspected plant is put into a sealed test tube for 15 minutes, allowing it to release any VOC. The system uses a paper test strip that changes color if there's a VOC problem. The smartphone camera images the color changes for the farmer to interpret. The process takes just a few minutes. But, the North Carolina team is now developing an app to make the results and evaluation automatic. For a free Kindle borrow of my book, "List of Top New Gadgets", go to amazon.com/author/ekane
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RSLHMWK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i12
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First of its Kind Device to Detect Plant Disease in Minutes
A new, smartphone powered device detects disease in plants. For the first time, plant disease can be detected by a portable device, used by a farmer in the field and the analysis is done on the spot within minutes. Up until now, plant analysis had to be done in a lab and that could take days or weeks. This smartphone powered device reads gas concentrations in a plant in the farm field real-time that reveal the presence of disease in plants.
Portable, on the Farm Device
This significant innovation was developed by a team at North Carolina State University. The device is designed to attach to a farmer's smart phone for quick crop analysis. This real-time turnaround is important to detect plant disease in order to limit the spread of it and the crop damage from it.
How the Tech Works
It is known that diseased plants emit volatile organic compounds (VOC). A sample leaf from a suspected plant is put into a sealed test tube for 15 minutes, allowing it to release any VOC. The system uses a paper test strip that changes color if there's a VOC problem. The smartphone camera images the color changes for the farmer to interpret. The process takes just a few minutes. But, the North Carolina team is now developing an app to make the results and evaluation automatic. For a free Kindle borrow of my book, "List of Top New Gadgets", go to amazon.com/author/ekane
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RSLHMWK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i12
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