Equipment

Equipment

The PHENODYN platform consists of a greenhouse and a growth chamber. Each is equipped with scales, displacement sensors and a set of climate sensors.

The experimental set-up in the greenhouse includes :

  • 168 scales that continuously measure changes in soil water status and transpiration,
phenodyn-balance_medium
  • 504 displacement sensors that continuously measure the speed of leaf elongation,
phenodyn-rdt_medium
  • a set of climate sensors
phenodyn-rdt_medium

A similar device is available in a growth chamber. It contains the same type of sensors that can monitor 60 plants simultaneously.

  • Server

The data is stored on a dedicated server (DELL PowerEdge R610, 2 bays MD1200).

  • Software

National Instrument programs record climate data and automatically send it to a database every 5 to 15 minutes.

Modification date: 17 July 2023 | Publication date: 17 June 2021 | By: Aurélien Ausset