The Lab Network · Live environmental data

Three sites, one repeatable design.

Each teaching site streams the same four readings, so a child at DANÚ, a student at ATU, and anyone who copies the template greenhouse are all doing the same science in their own ground. The data is open. The design is meant to be copied.

Water Humidity Light Soil quality
The Template

Built once, copied anywhere.

The template greenhouse is the proving node. Over the summer it is built and documented as an open blueprint, so any school, community garden or partner site can replicate it and join the network. The physics department's working prototype runs a solar panel and sensor boxes, and a soil-quality sensor is being added to complete the set.

Sensor design developed in collaboration with Dr Mossy Kelly and his students, ATU Physics Department.

Power · solar panel Water · moisture sensor Humidity · air sensor Light · light sensor Soil · quality sensor (adding)
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Open data, by design

Every reading is published.

Readings stream live below. Until the rigs are connected, each panel shows a realistic simulated feed so the network is alive from day one. To connect a real site, point it at a JSON feed that returns the four readings, and the dashboard switches from simulated to live automatically. The expected shape is small and open:

{ "site": "danu", "timestamp": "2026-06-08T11:40:00Z", "water": 58.2, // soil/water moisture, % "humidity": 64.0, // air humidity, % "light": 41850, // light level, lux "soil": 72.5 // soil quality index, 0-100 }