Plant Science & Research Articles
Peer-reviewed insights and technical deep-dives from the Vriksh Vani research team.
What Is VPD — And Why Is It the Most Important Metric You've Never Heard Of?
Vapour Pressure Deficit governs transpiration, nutrient uptake, and stomatal behaviour. Every plant care decision you make is implicitly a VPD decision. Here is the science.
Dr. Priya Nair, Head of Plant Biophysics
Why NIH-01 Uses a FLIR Thermal Camera — Not a Soil Moisture Sensor
Soil moisture sensors measure a single point in a substrate. A FLIR-grade thermal camera measures the leaf surface temperature of the entire plant — the real signal of stress.
Subhash Koli, Founder & CTO
Building NTE™: How We Trained a Plant Emotion Model on an ARM Cortex-M4 NPU
The Nature-to-Emotion translation model runs entirely on the NIH-01 edge hardware. This is the story of how we built a 3-axis emotion classifier that fits in 256KB of flash.
Arjun Mehta, ML Engineering Lead
Plants Have Circadian Rhythms Too — And NIH-01 Can Track Them
Plants regulate their stomatal behaviour, transpiration rate, and even their immune response according to a 24-hour internal clock. NIH-01 captures this in real time.
Dr. Priya Nair, Head of Plant Biophysics
Gas Resistance as a Root Zone Health Proxy: The Science Behind NIH-01's Soil Sensing
BME688 gas resistance readings correlate with volatile organic compound emissions from soil microbiomes. This is how we detect overwatering days before the plant shows symptoms.
Vikram Iyer, Hardware Engineering
The Evidence for Biophilic Office Design: What the Research Actually Says
A meta-analysis of 67 peer-reviewed studies on indoor plants and workplace wellbeing, productivity, and stress reduction — and what it means for enterprise plant care.
Ananya Krishnamurthy, Research Analyst