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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Objectives
• Features
• Setup for Sensor Package
• Setup for HyperRail

Introduction

Oregon State University’s Nursery Research and Extension and the Openly Published Environmental Sensing (OPEnS) Lab, have developed the ‘HyperRail’ a combined gantry and sensor, imaging, phenotyping package. A modular smart greenhouse in-a-box system that can potentially be configured for a wide variety of sensing, phenotyping, and automation purposes. The 3D HyperRail moves in three directions moving over a one-meter rail on the x-axis continuously, two-meter on the y-axis, and one-meter on the z-axis, with the sensor package attached on the z-axis in a water-resistant container. This device can be programmed to visit a suite of locations to gather information from the on-board sensor package.

Objectives

• Carry a sensor package to any desired coordinate location in all three axes.
• Carry a sensor package continuously throughout the frame.
• Adjustable length in all axis.
• Adjustable framing capability.

Features

• The Sensor package

  • Adafruit Feather M0 Lora + Adalogger + RTC.
  • K30 CO2 sensor.
  • TSL2591 luminosity sensor.
  • SHT31-D temperature + relative humidity sensor.

• The HyperRail hub

  • Adafruit Feather M0 Basic + nRF shield. There is a separate repository for the HyperRail: https://github.com/OPEnSLab-OSU/HyperRail

• The Ethernet hub

  • Adafruit Feather Lora + Adafruit Ethernet Feather Wing

Setup for Sensor Package

Sensor Package Setup

Setup for HyperRail

HyperRail Setup