When A College Student Invent A Metal Nose, He Can Smell Plants And Drink Water.

"With this"

My nose, my two acres of Greenhouse Eggplant, save 1/4 of water consumption per month, and the growth is very good.

Recently, a vegetable grower in Chong an District, Jiangsu, thanked a sophomore from Zhejiang Normal University for calling.

He called "metal nose" is an intelligent water-saving irrigation controller, the inventor of Zhejiang Normal University Applied Electronics Technology Education sophomore Yu Zehang.

"The usual irrigation facilities are fixed time watering, and it is the same on sunny days and rainy days.

This "metal nose" can be automatically watered according to air humidity, temperature and water requirement of plants, and a drop of water is not wasted.

Yu Zehang said.

Why did this invention happen? His father used to sell electronic products. He often had customers' reflection, his own vegetable greenhouses, irrigating devices were unintelligent, wasting water, and adjusting parameters were time-consuming and laborious.

Yu Zehang usually loves to drum up small inventions, which is more important when he listens. If crops can speak, it will be fine when they need to drink water.

Starting in March this year, he made his own programming, welding circuit, and procurement of hardware facilities for 3 weeks, forming a square box with palm size.

Introduction, simply speaking, it is like installing a "metal nose" for the irrigation equipment, and its own dry and wet bulb and thermometer can detect the humidity and temperature of the environment.

The measured values are converted into electrical signals, and the electrical signals can be adjusted by adjusting the interval and duration of the water.

At the same time, water can be set according to the drought tolerance of plants.

This "nose" spirit is not working? This summer vacation, Yu Zehang and his father opened a small test plot at home, planted potatoes, and recorded every data.

After many improvements, in September this year, the "metal nose" was awarded the national utility model patent.

Dad put his son's product in a shop and soon received orders from all over the country, earning nearly 10000 yuan in net income within a few months.

"Next step I am

Add memory chips and shortcuts to make it smarter.

Yu Zehang said.

Although he is only a college student, he usually does a lot of things.

He is a typical otaku, but he is in the laboratory.

This summer vacation, he almost never went out. He spent a month and a half in the lab, designing programs, writing algorithms and welding circuits every day, from morning till night.

Sometimes it's too late for him to bring a yoga mat to bed in the laboratory.

Yu Zehang said his dream is to invent more energy efficient products and open an energy saving electronics company in the future to benefit more people.