The specific objectives of PLANTS project are:
- To study plant eco-systems in order to understand sensing and communication mechanisms, which will be used as models for the specification of the plant-artefact interfacing mechanisms.
- To design and develop sensors and sensor networks, which will be implanted around and in plants and will transform biological signals into digital signals.
- To design and develop biosensors and actuators, which will provide artefacts with the ability to induce complex responses from plant-life and perceive their environment in a plant-like way.
- To design and implement specific middleware (ePlantOS) in order to integrate complex distributed systems of sensors and artefacts into a balanced eco-system, for the purposes of non-predictive study of selected plant-life and interaction with its environment (people included)
- The project will create two demonstrators, where intermediate results will be used for evaluation and optimisation and the final results will be analysed and displayed.
