Comment by westurner

Can your sensor product feed data to open source software for hobbyist and professional agriculture?

I set up FarmOS in a container once; the PWA approach to the offline mobile app was cool but I guess I wasn't that committed to manual data collection or hobbyist gardening.

Are there open standards to support architectural sensor data?

Where is the identifier on the sensor? How does the user scan the visually-confirmable sensor barcode or QR code or similar and associate that with a garden bed or a container?

How does it notify of low battery status; is there a voltage reading to predict the out of battery condition?

Is there a configurable polling interval?

How do I find a sensor unit with a dead battery; is there a low-power chirp, or do I need a metal detector or very directional wireless sensors and triangulation or trilateration?

Are there nooks and crannies in the casing?

How to replace the battery?

Can they be made out of compostable materials? E.g. carbon with existing nanofabrication capabilities

After Single Walled Twisted Carbon Nanotube batteries which are unfortunately still only in the lab, and more practically Sodium Ion, which batteries can safely be discarded or recycled in the agricultural field?

LoRaWAN may be more economical than multiple directional long range WiFi antenna like can be found on YouTube. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22735933