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GEMS Sensing

About GEMS Sensing

GEMS Sensing is a Service Organization of the GEMS Informatics Center at the University of Minnesota. Technologies are developed in the Real-time GeoInformation Systems Lab and supported by the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.

What GEMS Sensing Provides

GEMS Sensing provides:

  1. A standard sensor data collection, integration, visualization, and download interface.
    • Hardware, see here
    • Software, see here
    • Data Quality Assurance and Quality Control Flagging and more details, see here
  2. Daily remote monitoring of each sensor in the field deployment, email notification if a sensor is down in your fleet, and remote technical support as you need it for solving the problem.
  3. Templated standard operating procedures for managing the systems in the field. See here for an example.

What Hardware does GEMS Sensing Use?

See here.

The majority of our hardware is off-the-shelf from the best manufacturers of environmental sensors such as Apogee, Davis, and Acclima.

What does GEMS Sensing Cost?

These prices vary year to year, but here's a sheet to estimate for internal to UMN collaborations. If you're a non-UMN collaborator, we have to follow a different approach to establishing rates that ensures parity with the general market.

What GEMS Sensing doesn't Provide:

We don't provide:

  1. Full service field deployment and data collection. The RTGS Lab collaborates on research projects though at the co-PI and PI levels.
  2. Consulting. We also do that through the RTGS Lab though.

Can I interface new devices with your logger?

Yes! But this is an RTGS Lab project. We'll work with our sponsored project office to get things setup. We work with SDI-12, I2C, and analog devices.

Does your system work in [Europe, Africa, Asia, ...]?

Likely, but not for certain. The Particle B-Series SoM is the backbone of our logger and telemetry. We can swap out B-Series SoMs to work most places (see here) but we always recommend doing pilots if we haven't deployed in a location before.

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  1. Project-Kestrel Project-Kestrel Public

    Hardware files for the Kestrel data logger

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  2. Talon-Auxiliary Talon-Auxiliary Public

    Hardware files for the Aux Talon design

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  3. Talon-SDI12 Talon-SDI12 Public

    Hardware designs for SDI12 Talon for Flight hardware system

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  4. Talon-I2C Talon-I2C Public

    Hardware designs for I2C Talon for Flight hardware system

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  5. DFM_-_Flight DFM_-_Flight Public

    Manufacturing information for the Flight system

  6. DFM_-_SoilMoisture-TDR315H DFM_-_SoilMoisture-TDR315H Public

    Assembly description for TDR315H soil moisture sensor

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  • Talon-SDI12 Public

    Hardware designs for SDI12 Talon for Flight hardware system

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  • Talon-I2C Public

    Hardware designs for I2C Talon for Flight hardware system

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    C++ 0 CC-BY-SA-4.0 0 4 0 Updated Nov 2, 2024
  • Project-Kestrel Public

    Hardware files for the Kestrel data logger

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    C 1 CC-BY-SA-4.0 0 5 0 Updated Nov 2, 2024
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  • Talon-Auxiliary Public

    Hardware files for the Aux Talon design

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    C++ 0 CC-BY-SA-4.0 0 3 0 Updated Nov 1, 2024
  • Project-Flight Public

    System overview of the Flight (v3) GEMS Sensing data logger

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