Overview
Understanding biodiversity requires more than recording which species are present — it means understanding the conditions they live in. Temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, light levels, and soil moisture all influence species behaviour, breeding cycles, and habitat suitability.
sensor-control provides a unified interface for installing and configuring environmental sensors on the Raspberry Pi, making it straightforward to pair abiotic data collection with acoustic and visual monitoring on the same node.
Why It Matters
Correlating species observations with environmental data is fundamental to ecological research. By logging microclimate conditions alongside soundscape and camera data, researchers can analyse how temperature fluctuations affect dawn chorus timing, how humidity triggers amphibian activity, or how barometric pressure shifts influence insect emergence.
Key Features
- Unified interface for temperature, humidity, pressure, light, and other sensors
- Standardised installation and configuration across sensor types
- Time-synchronised environmental logging alongside acoustic and visual data
- Designed for long-term, unattended field deployment
Source Code
sensor-control is open source and available on GitHub.
Supported Sensors
sensor-control works with a growing range of environmental sensor drivers. Each follows the same JSON interface and can be installed via APT.
sensor-dht11
Low-cost DHT11 sensor for basic microclimate monitoring.
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Temperature, humidity, pressure, and gas resistance via I2C.
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