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Can artificial intelligence predict a costly treefall?
ePlant’s TreeTag app measures a tree’s behaviour and health and provides comprehensive reporting and proactive suggestions to help keep trees thriving.
US-based ePlant has introduced the world’s first smart yard system that gives trees a ‘voice’ and lets them tell owners what they need when they need it.
The TreeTag app measures a tree’s behaviour and health and provides comprehensive reporting and proactive suggestions to help keep trees thriving. The sensor and AI-powered software have been designed to track and analyse tree health patterns using smart algorithms.
Combating climate change
“Planting trees is vital to combating climate change, but we need to keep them alive. Alas, most of us aren’t tree care experts. So our trees can end up neglected, unwatered, or unhealthy. Sometimes we end up having to pay someone to remove them. When we do that, we’ve wasted the resources we spent to help them grow, we lose the value they brought to us, and we lose time in the years and years it takes to grow another tree,” said
Graham Hine, co-founder, and CEO at ePlant.
“With ePlant, the tree itself asks for, and guides care, eliminating much of the guesswork so you can preserve the health of your valued trees.”
“The sensors are capable of detecting problems with trees long before symptoms appear to the observer, and because of this we believe they will have a strong and positive impact on urban forestry”
TreeTag was created by a team of consumer hardware experts and robotic engineers from Fitbit, Liquid Robotics (acquired by Boeing), Symantec, SanDisk, Asyst Technologies, Microlinear, Google, and other technology companies with advisors from John Deere, Georgia Tech, University of Washington, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
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The AI-powered sensor system provides unprecedented insights and real-time monitoring to get proactive guidance into: real-time growth, contraction, irrigation, lean, stress, temperature, light, carbon capture, humidity, and overall health updates wirelessly, with proactively delivered insights via the TreeTag app.
Each starter bundle comes with a solar-powered ePlant TreeTag that can be easily installed on the tree, a plug-in bridge for wireless connection, and a free one-year subscription to the ePlant app ($24 value) and recognition as a founding member of the ePlant community which carries lasting benefits.
According to ePlant within 20 minutes of setup, users will start receiving plant insights and proactive updates on a tree’s health.
“The ePlant sensors will improve our ability to detect and monitor tree health, especially in situations when trees are at risk like during construction or road modification”
Once installed, the ePlant TreeTag requires zero maintenance and has an average lifespan of 10 years. Users will see a notification on their phone if the tree has an urgent need.
By deploying an ePlant TreeTag, ePlant reports customers are helping save their trees while gathering vital plant health data that can be leveraged to support solutions from climate change to sustainable agriculture, forestry, food security, and more.
“Our team has used ePlant sensors to monitor tree growth and health in our local parks. The sensors are simple and fast to install and provide reliable data at fine temporal resolutions. The sensors allowed us to see how trees respond to water in ways we never had before which was invaluable to our research objectives,” said Natalie Love, PhD, a Frost postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at Cal PolyCal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California.
“The ePlant sensors will improve our ability to detect and monitor tree health, especially in situations when trees are at risk like during construction or road modification. The sensors are capable of detecting problems with trees long before symptoms appear to the observer, and because of this we believe they will have a strong and positive impact on urban forestry.”
ePlant’s TreeTags will start shipping from November 2023.
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