{"591986":{"#nid":"591986","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Non-Profit Concrete Jungle Partners Up With Georgia Tech to Build Fruit Sensors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECarl DiSalvo, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication was mentioned in\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Non-Profit Concrete Jungle Partners Up With Georgia Tech to Build Fruit Sensors\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHypepotamus\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe non-profit not only wanted to collect produce\u0026nbsp;when they find it, but track and document the most fruitful (pun intended) spots around Atlanta. They have documented over 2,800 fruit trees so far of over 20 different varieties on an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.concrete-jungle.org\/food-map\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Einteractive food map.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;As their urban\u0026nbsp;harvest grew, one of the biggest challenges the team encountered was keeping track of the varying fruit tree\u0026nbsp;production and monitoring when the ideal time is for the perfect ripe fruit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDurkin, along with co-founder Aubrey Daniels and director Katherine Kennedy,\u0026nbsp;reached out to Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dm.lmc.gatech.edu\/?doing_wp_cron=1495083475.3976600170135498046875\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Digital Media\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for help solving this problem \u0026mdash; how to remotely access thousands of trees and sense when fruit is ready to pick.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/publicdesignworkshop.net\/portfolio\/designs-for-foraging\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECarl DiSalvo\u0026rsquo;s Public Design Workshop research studio\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech specializes on experimenting with different avenues of design. The combined team of academics, agricultural specialists, and social good leaders came up with an array of ideas to detect ripe fruit, from drones and mechanical sensors to\u0026nbsp;embedded tree cameras or even using old-fashioned\u0026nbsp;human sensors (passersby) .\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hypepotamus.com\/companies\/concrete-jungle\/\u0022\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2017-05-22 14:43:08","changed_gmt":"2017-05-23 21:25:42","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/hypepotamus.com\/companies\/concrete-jungle\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591991":{"id":"591991","type":"image","title":"Carl DiSalvo","body":null,"created":"1495467647","gmt_created":"2017-05-22 15:40:47","changed":"1495467647","gmt_changed":"2017-05-22 15:40:47","alt":"Carl DiSalvo, assistant professor, Literature, Media and Communication","file":{"fid":"225611","name":"CarlDiSalvoWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CarlDiSalvoWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CarlDiSalvoWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35459,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/CarlDiSalvoWeb.jpg?itok=oMQKhY2g"}}},"media_ids":["591991"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}