Frequently Asked Questions

FLIR thermal arrays detect micro-kelvin surface temperature shifts on leaves caused by evaporative cooling during stomatal opening. This non-invasive method measures plant stress hours before physical wilting occurs.

No. The NIH-01 contains no visual cameras. Thermal frames are processed exclusively in volatile SRAM by the local ARM Cortex-M4 NPU and overwritten 20 times per second with zero video cloud exfiltration.

NTE™ supports 8 native languages including English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Spanish, and German.

The NIH-01 features onboard 30-day (720-hour) SPI flash memory. It continues monitoring plant biometrics locally and automatically backfills cloud history when reconnected.

Batch 01 production units ship in October 2026. Every reservation includes a numbered gold-foil certificate and founding member pricing.