Microsoft’s Research Project
Florence will allow you to talk
to the plants in your garden, surprised? Remember Indian scientist JC Basu who
told the world that plants have life, feelings and they can talk and listen too,
From centuries we have been hearing and reading that talking to plants
or playing soothing music nearby the plants help to grow them better. Also
gardeners have claimed the same and do believe that plants benefits from human
conversations and react to their environment in a language of electrical
impulses and chemicals.
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| Talk to Your Plants with the Help of Microsoft’s Research Project Florence, Image courtesy |
Under the hood, Project Florence is a sensor-loaded plant capsule that
is connected to a companion computer with which you can send messages to the
plant, hang on! Project Florence
Check the real heck here:
To start communicating, you can type anything you like at the devices
accompanying terminal. Then, a few things happen to that message at the same
time. Initially, your message is mapped for a sentiment, whether it is positive
or negative message? And after that the sentiment is translated into a Morse
Code-like series of blinks. For instance, a very tender sentiment might appear
as a long red blinks as red light causes a plant to flower.
There are sensors connected to the leaves, roots as well as in the soil
and air too which will get a general gist of how plant is feeling. Are the
leaves giving off any sensitive chemical? Does the soil seem to be dry? From
those sensor readings, the plants make a positive or negative “response” to
your sentiment. The plants reaction is translated into words we can understand
and sent back to us as a response from the plant.
Speaking about the feelings of plants, the
research Doc said, “We can almost create moods of the plant, and abstract the
message that comes back. When I ask you as question and you are in a really
good mood the response is probably better than you are tired. That’s why we
thought natural language processing was a good way [to indicate the plant’s
state].”
Meanwhile, Helene Steiner aims to continue to work closely with the
Microsoft to further explore the core science behind this breakthrough
technology.
Microsoft is also quite concerned about this idea of conversation
between the humans and the plants. If you want to build more maintained agro
systems and if you are interested in thinking about responsive environments,
you could really think about bringing a natural environment into our
technological world, rather than placing technology everywhere into our
environment.
This breakthrough scientific discovery needs to be progressed and
we are looking forward on this interesting project in coming years.
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