The Smart Spirulina System was developed by Jimmy Tang and Regina Flores Mir as part of their Research Fellowship at Terreform One during the summer of 2015.
The Smart Spirulina System is a bio-informatic message system incorporated into the Urban Farm Pod part of the Plug-In Ecology framework being developed at Terreform One. The objective of this project is a system design that will show how to grow Spirulina in an urban farm setting. The system design is broken out into two areas:
(1) A grow system for the cultivation of large amounts of Spirulina and a distribution system to allocate to Spirulina Bottles on the surface of the sphere.
(2) A digital monitoring platform that can (a) relay specific information about the health and growing conditions of the Spirulina directly to a user's smart-phone or desktop and (b) integrate into the Internet of Plants by providing a public and free API.