Phenospex uses L6N loadcell in field or greenhouses

How Zemic could help Phenospex

All our products, from Zemic Europe and also from Phenospex, are designed with the intent to deliver meaningful features and results to customers. This was the basis for Phenospex to develop the fieldscale, a tool to measure steady transpiration of plants in any condition. Zemic needed to think along with Phenospex about the weighing plattform they wanted to build and which loadcell was suitable for it. Phenospex selected the L6N single point loadcell together with Zemic Europe.

Phenospex developed FieldScale as a robust and affordable solution for assessing the transpiration rates of hundreds of plants. Providing genotypes with improved tolerances towards drought has become a major focus in science and breeding programs around the world. Assessing water status has become a basic research method, which is increasingly performed by gravimetric measurements. The power of gravimetric measurements lies in its simplicity and the ability to gain integrated and resilient data over the day. Watermanagement is becoming more and more important nowadays, especialy in areas around the world where water is rare.

In the first complicated project with a large amount of load cells that needed to reach high quality level in varying temperature, close communication was needed with engineers both in Europe and in China to enable deep understanding for Phenospex. Zemic could deliver a load cell that can handle off centered weights and varying temperatures for this Phenospex application. More than 1500 load cells are now installed world wide already due to this unique collaboration.