Plant-e has completed the first of its demonstrations in Dublin Ireland, together with National Parks and Wildlife Service, Ireland’s nature conservation agency. A total of 10 Plant-e groundwater-level SensorSticks were installed to monitor groundwater level fluctuations at Liffey Head Bog to monitor the site’s hydrology. These SensorSticks will provide data powered by plants and transmitted over satellite, without any maintenance needed, neither now nor in the next 30 years.

Liffey Head Bog is no ordinary site. Once used for peat extraction, it has since been undergoing restoration and holds Special Area of Conservation status as part of the Wicklow National Park. It’s also the River Liffey rises , which then flows through Dublin and into the Irish Sea. Supplying over 80 % of Dublin’s drinking water and supporting almost 1.2 million people, the River Liffey is a keystone of natural heritage and water resilience.

Building water resilience from the ground up starts at the source. And for Dublin, that’s the Liffey Head Bog. Our SensorSticks, now installed at this critical site, deliver real-time water-table data. No batteries. No fieldwork. No gaps. Just reliable insight into the hydrology that sustains this Special Area of Conservation.
As the origin of the River Liffey, this bog is more than a carbon store, it’s the foundation of the capital’s water supply.