In order to both establish base line readings and also to detect anomalies, PSI is designing and building devices to accurately measure and record factors that might effect or be affected by anomalous activity.
General Requirements:
- Low cost: As a non-profit charity, we need to be cost conscious.
- Accurate: As a scientific organization we rely on the accuracy of our tools.
- Reliable: We can’t use it if it doesn’t work.
- Open Source: As part of our commitment to openness, we will publish our designs and license them under one of the many open source licenses.
- Data Standardization: Our tools will need to save and export the data in a common, standardized format such as CSV, PNG, and MP4 or other formats as they are developed in the future.
Software Tools
We will be evaluating freely available software for web browsers, Android, iPhone, Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Hardware Tools
Beginning with commonly available hardware, we will develop tools for measuring environmental data, human vital signs, and for creating truly random numbers for our experiments.
Environmental
Initial devices may only record some of these, but we hope to eventually be able to design all-in-one recorders to cover most or all of these. They will feature internal memory storage and remote logging via radio (LoRa, WiFi, or other possibilities)
- Temperature
- Barometric Pressure
- Humidity
- Sound Levels, infra-sound detection, sound recording
- Full Spectrum Image and Video recording with various programmable triggers
- Geiger Counter
- Three Axis Electromagnetic Force
- Vibration and seismic activity
- Anemometer
- Gas detection and analysis
- Audio and visual feedback triggered by programmable thresholds.
Human
Similar to our environmental needs, we will be evaluating and developing tools to monitor various measurable human variables such as:
- Core temperature
- Extremity temperature
- Galvanic skin resistance
- Heart rate
- Breathing rate
- Blood pressure
- Oxygen saturation
- EEG
- EKG
Random Number Generators
A True Random Number Generator (TRNG) is crucial in parapsychology to ensure that deviations from chance in micro-psychokinesis (PK) or precognition experiments are caused by consciousness, not by predictable patterns or machine biases. TRNGs, often based on quantum noise, provide an objective, high-standard baseline for testing if human intent can influence unpredictable physical systems.
PSI will evaluate available free options for generating True Random Numbers. Options may include sophisticated software, affordable hardware, and online API’s that access the much more expensive hardware, such as CURBy from the University of Colorado and NIST.
