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PheNode's official release - Spring 2021

What is PheNode?

PheNode is the first comprehensive, modular, affordable remote phenotyping device designed to evolve with the user. Modular and customizable, the PheNode will adapt to changing research and production goals.

Integrate new sensors as they become available

Agrela’s embedded systems architecture and comprehensive onboard diagnostics verify research quality data collection and statistical accuracy across all devices in any environment

Designed and manufactured in the USA to maintain high level quality control and component traceability

Remote imaging allows the user to monitor plant phenophases, crop damage and more

Database and software can be hosted on various platforms, including your own private network

Tailor and normalize data outputs for your machine learning models

Completely solar powered and made from recyclable materials

Wireless Sensors

measures temperature, humidity, air pressure, lux
plug in soil probes or any other
SDI-12 sensor (PheNode-compatible)

Soil Sensors

Measure the following conditions:

volumetric water content (VWC),
matric potential (water pressure),
electrical conductivity (EC), soil temperature
permittivity, and more

Sensor Modules &
Pipe Sections

measures temperature, humidity,

air pressure, & lux (light quantity)

monitor temperature and humidity gradients within crop canopies
add pipe sections for taller crops (maize)
remove pipe sections for shorter crops (soybean)

PheNode Diagram

Control Module

system controller
RGB imaging module
plug in up to (3) sensors
LoRaWAN, WiFi, and cellular communication

Power

PheNode is low power (12VDC)
completely solar powered outdoors
plug into wall outlet for indoor applications

Power Module

battery compartment and solar charge controller
add (1) imaging module for intracanopy imaging
plug in up to (3) SDI-12 sensors

Environmental Sensors

wind speed / wind direction
PAR (light quality)
rainfall

The control module can be mounted to Agrela’s patented aluminum structure, or many other structures, in order to facilitate both indoor and outdoor phenotyping programs.

Add more sensors via plug and play
connectors

The Junction Box add-on will allow you to integrate even more sensors into your PheNode while keeping exposed cables tidy.

Position the solar panel in any direction on either side of the crossbar in order to maximize solar exposure.

The crossbar can accommodate many different sensors.

The camera arm has multiple points of
articulation allowing you to image in any direction irrespective of the pole structure’s orientation.

PheNode is designed for maximum flexibility.

The crossbar and mounting plate can also be spun and tightened in any direction around the pole structure for additional customization.

Adjust PheNode's height to accommodate different crops

PheNode is Modular

2 Modules for Strawberries

3 Modules for Grain Sorghum

4 Modules for Maize

Indoor / Outdoor Applications

Whether indoors or outdoors, the PheNode can accommodate your phenotyping needs.

Install PheNode on the side of the field as a base station for a wireless sensor network...

...or install the PheNode within the crop field in order to closely monitor intracanopy environmental conditions and crop phenophases with imaging sensors.

Use PheNode’s pole structure indoors as a movable phenotyping station...

...or mount the control module to an existing or custom structure, and create a fixed phenotyping station.

Campbell Scientific SoilVUE10 profile probe

Acting as a base station, the PheNode can be positioned outside the crop field so daily operations remain unencumbered. The wireless sensors will send their data to the PheNode via LoRaWAN or WiFi communication every hour, 24 hours a day throughout the growing season.

The following soil probe options will be plug-and-play
compatible with the wireless sensors at launch:

Meter

Teros 12

Meter

Teros 21

Acclima TDR

310H

Wireless Sensors

These battery operated sensors placed in each plot or in select, representative areas in the field, remotely collect data throughout the growing season. These data, along with the sensor’s diagnostics, are then transmitted to the PheNode via LoRaWAN or WiFi communication.

PheNode's Backend

...or host the backend on your own private network.

Host the backend on a cloud
infrastructure platform of your choice (AWS, Azure, etc.)...

PheNode’s backend is portable.

Send all the data collected from your
PheNodes to a single destination.

User Dashboard

View and retrieve data from all your PheNodes in a single dashboard.

Diagnostics log and settings

Wireless sensor data

Imaging data

Environmental data

View real time data as the PheNode sends it to the cloud

Enter a custom time range and download raw or processed environmental and diagnostic data in .csv or .xlsx format

GPS coordinates confirm the location of your device for logistical as well as security purposes

Toggle through all PheNodes connected to a single account

Enter a custom time range and download raw or processed imaging data in .zip format

Monitor all wireless sensor data

Let PheNode clean your data

Set conditions for data downloads in order to accelerate the data analysis process.

Choose a PheNode

Includes:

LoRa gateway for wireless sensors
Cellular and Wifi communications
5MP RGB imaging module
Camera arm, mount and crossbar
Solar panel and power module
Inspeed Vortex Anemometer
Pronamic Professional Rain Gauge
Meter Teros 12 Soil Probe
(3) temp, air pressure, humidity sensors
Plug in up to (4) additional wired sensors and connect as many wireless sensors as you need

Standard Outdoor PheNode
Starting at $4,999

Add ground spikes and guy
wires for in-field support: $79

Standard Indoor PheNode
Starting at $2,499

Includes:

LoRa gateway for wireless sensors
Cellular and Wifi communications
5MP RGB imaging module
Camera arm and mount
Plug in up to (4) wired sensors and

connect as many wireless sensors as
you need

Add wireless sensors for $299 each

Add the basic pole structure for sensor and imaging support for $1,599