Bloom Park 1.0

A Plant-e system was installed in Bloom Park in Slough Borough Council, England in 2018. Due to the rainy climate in England, the groundwater level there is high, which makes the country an ideal place to apply Plant-e systems. This first project in Slough will supply power to an interactive information board.

After developing the system in Bloompark, the collaboration between Plant-e and Slough Borough Council has not stopped. We started working together on developing and applying camera traps and a phenology camera in the urban forest.

The urban forest

In the years that followed, we used a camera trap in the City Forest, which partly drew its power from living plants. This made it possible to capture passing game.

Phenological sensors

As part of an ongoing collaboration with landscape architects Stephen & Louise Handley, Plant-e has developed PMFC-powered phenology sensors for monitoring a newly planted woodland area (in this case an orchard). In this case, each phenology sensor is powered by one P-MFC and informs us about tree growth and their health. Combined with brightness and temperature measurements, these sensors can even help us assess the amount of carbon stored in the soil by trees!