GEMS Sensing is a Service Organization of the GEMS Informatics Center at the University of Minnesota. Technologies are developed in the Real-time GeoInformation Systems Lab and supported by the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.

GEMS Sensing provides:

1. A standard sensor data collection, integration, visualization, and download interface.
   • Hardware, see here
   • Software, see here
   • Data Quality Assurance and Quality Control Flagging and more details, see here
2. Daily remote monitoring of each sensor in the field deployment, email notification if a sensor is down in your fleet, and remote technical support as you need it for solving the problem.
3. Templated standard operating procedures for managing the systems in the field. See here for an example.

See here.

The majority of our hardware is off-the-shelf from the best manufacturers of environmental sensors such as Apogee, Davis, and Acclima.

These prices vary year to year, but here's a sheet to estimate for internal to UMN collaborations. If you're a non-UMN collaborator, we have to follow a different approach to establishing rates that ensures parity with the general market.

We don't provide:

1. Full service field deployment and data collection. The RTGS Lab collaborates on research projects though at the co-PI and PI levels.
2. Consulting. We also do that through the RTGS Lab though.

Yes! But this is an RTGS Lab project. We'll work with our sponsored project office to get things setup. We work with SDI-12, I2C, and analog devices.

Likely, but not for certain. The Particle B-Series SoM is the backbone of our logger and telemetry. We can swap out B-Series SoMs to work most places (see here) but we always recommend doing pilots if we haven't deployed in a location before.