Biomimicking of physiology with micro embedded systems for tree infusion

Abstract

The aim of project is to bridge the plant engineering with micro/nano era to promote sustainable environment and tree health. This projects promotes resource and chemical accountability, more hands on yield and metabolisms and paves for a new future in tree health diagnosis in Horticulture, Ornamental trees, Urban trees and commercial trees like Malabar neem, teak, eucalyptus etc for timber and rubber. The concept is to hack the hydraulic physiological process of trees to induce water, minerals, growth hormones, biocides and any other chemical solutions prompting tree health with almost noninvasive and zero environmental hazards. The pumping process is bio mimicked with MEMS pumping motor or actuator with necessary sensor plugins embedded into Drug delivery using MEMS in humans is already trending the concept is adapted to tree diagnosis. Micro needle or capillary tubes shunted either to lateral roots or to cambium part of bark as per the solution to be infused. An entire model kit for micro infusion is to be designed for automated and pumping at tree flow rates in a least invasive way. In this paper we propose a biomimicking hydraulic pumping model with MEMS shunted with micro needles/Capillaries to maintain steady flow for several hours.