Final year Electrical Engineering degree student Armando Bourgknecht, based at the University of Applied Sciences Fribourg, Switzerland, has been working with Vivent as part of our Swiss Government funded Project PISA, under the supervision of Marco Mazza at HEIA-FR, applying Deep Learning techniques to plant electrical signalling data. I caught up with him to chat [...]
For the last 12 months, as part of Vivent’s Swiss Government funded Innosuisse Project Pisa, HEiG-VD based information technology expert Dr Elena Najdenovska has been applying her considerable expertise to the processing, analysis and modelling of plant electrical signalling recordings from our PhytlSigns bio-sensor. I recently talked to Elena about her career. Macedonian born Elena, [...]
We were fortunate enough to attend for the first time the annual congress of the relatively young Biocontrol industry, vital to the future of crop growing, and we felt right at home! Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting With a record attendance of 1227 delegates from 52 countries, 536 organisations all related to the fast-growing [...]
Third year Agronomy degree student Antoine Chandelier has certainly `been on a journey' in the last few years- from Parisian gardening & landscaping school to one of Switzerland's leading agricultural research centres - Agroscope, in the heart of the beautiful Valais region. At Agroscope he's been part of the Swiss government-funded Project Pisa team for the [...]
Over the last year Vivent has had the pleasure of working collaboratively with an electrophysiologist who has been using PhytlSigns in tomato and eggplant greenhouses as part of the Swiss government's drive for Smart Farming and Digitisation in Agriculture. We recently found out more about his back story. Daniel Tran is a post-doc plant biologist [...]
Knowledge of the presence of plants’ sensing abilities powered by their signalling systems is limited except amongst specialist plant biologists. But recently COOP, the Swiss supermarket chain who are leaders in providing organic produce from apples to cotton t-shirts, introduced their COOP magazine readers to facts about how plants perceive their environments. The article “The [...]
For some time now PhytlSigns has been trialled by plant researchers in Rex Cocroft’s laboratory at the University of Missouri-Columbia, as part of their research into plant perception of herbivore vibrations and resultant plant signalling. This summer PhytlSigns was thoroughly tested by a visiting student under the NSF REU (National Science Foundation Research Experiences for [...]
Over the summer we have seen first hand how PhytlSigns technology can inspire young student scientists to want to know more about plant biology by giving them tantalising access to the hidden and relatively unexplored world of plant communication via electrical signals. Student Gus Saalfeld has based his final year school project around electrical signals [...]
Congratulations to Dr Hamdan Awan on the acceptance of our paper at the IEEE Global Communications Conference As part of series of profiles of scientists working with Vivent we are delighted to introduce Dr Hamdan Awan and to congratulate him on having our work accepted at the highly prestigious IEEE conference – Globecom coming up [...]
Anthony Schluchin, Electrical Engineer, HEIA, Fribourg, Switzerland Born in Switzerland , Anthony studied for an apprenticeship at EMF Fribourg before undertaking a BSc in Electrical Engineering at HEIA Fribourg. He's currently studying for an MSc in Embedded Systems at HES-SO Lausanne at the same time as working at the iPrint Institute. One of his major projects at HEIA has involved [...]
