In the interest of combatting climate change, this is an open source research project to develop a product that efficiently converts food waste into vermicompost, which is able to monitor the process using specially designed software.
The Smart Worm Habitat is a continuous flow through (CFT) vermicompost system that converts foodwaste into the best fertiliser known to mankind, vermicast.
CFT systems vastly improves the efficiency of harvesting vermicast, as they allow the worms to remain undisturbed in the layers above, while the vermicast is collected (harvested) from below.
Also, the Smart Worm Habitat uses a computer to monitor the health of itself using several sensors, namely moisture, PH level and temperature.
Well, you know how your smart phone is "smart" because it has a computer inside it? the Smart Worm Habitat does too - it uses computer sensors to monitor the following:
- Outside Temperature
- Inside Temperature
- Soil Moisture level
- Soil PH level
The primary purpose of the Smart Worm Habitat is to be able to efficiently covert captured food waste into vermicompost, and reduce the associated greenhouse gases should that food waste had of ended up in landfill.
The SWH will stop 1,368kg of CO2-e entering the atmosphere (equivalent to 5.62 petrol tanks), every single month.
The software will also provide a data entry tool to record the weights of input to calculate total emission savings.
The Smart Worm Habitat will monitor and send alerts whenever it suspects the worms are in trouble!
- If you wish to participate in R&D, read the guide.
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