Sensors in the field, appearances around the region and progress on the platform.
Green Ecolution has won the Green Coding special prize of the 2026 Digitalisierungspreis, the digitalisation award of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Digital minister Dirk Schrödter presented the prize, worth 25,000 euros, in Kiel on 23 September.
Cedrik Hoffmann
Lead Developer & Project Lead
At one test site in Flensburg the soil grew drier for six weeks even though 95 millimetres of rain fell at the weather station. A full summer with nine soil sensors shows how little a rainfall reading says about the root zone.
Cedrik Hoffmann
Lead Developer & Project Lead
Public broadcaster NDR reported on the urban trees that no longer survive the dry summers and showed Green Ecolution as one of the answers. The television piece aired on 29 August 2026, and an article went up on ndr.de the same day.
Cedrik Hoffmann
Lead Developer & Project Lead
Green Ecolution takes part in this year's Open Source Wettbewerb. The community award is decided by a public vote that runs from 17 August to 30 September.
Cedrik Hoffmann
Lead Developer & Project Lead
At the Gelehrte Gläser science format we presented Green Ecolution in the middle of Flensburg's city center, over a drink and in direct conversation instead of a lecture hall.
Cedrik Hoffmann
Lead Developer & Project Lead
The second round of trial installations brings five more soil moisture sensors to deliberately difficult sites, and the assignment between sensor and tree sees its first use in the field.
Cedrik Hoffmann
Lead Developer & Project Lead
Together with the TBZ Flensburg we installed the first three soil moisture sensors at urban trees. The first readings are already coming in over LoRaWAN.
Cedrik Hoffmann
Lead Developer & Project Lead
At the Smart Region Day of the Smart City Amt Süderbrarup we presented Green Ecolution, from the sensors to the operations planning. An open source project at an event about open source in rural areas.
Cedrik Hoffmann
Lead Developer & Project Lead
Green Ecolution is one of 17 projects that Schleswig-Holstein finances through the Offene Innovation state program. At the Innopier in Kiel we presented the project and signed the contracts.
Cedrik Hoffmann
Lead Developer & Project Lead
