June 27, 2006
Students Design Sensor Network To Protect Romanian Forest
The application works under low power requirements, establishing a network and routing protocol that connects the sensors to a central server. From there, alerts are sent to PDAs if poaching or other illegal activity is detected.
The application uses a network of sensors to monitor humidity, sound, temperature and carbon monoxide levels.
The Politehnica University of Bucharest students built the application with Microsoft Corp. products, and they took first place in the recent Windows Embedded Student ChallengE. The group was one of 30 international teams who made the finals.
The application focuses on saving Romania's forests by tying into the contest theme: preserve, protect and enhance the environment. Illegal logging, which accounts for about 40 percent of the trees cut down in Romania, contributes to flash floods and landslides...
http://www.forestwatcher.net/
~In other places in the world where poachers may not be a problem couldn't sensor networks like this be used to control access to what once were public lands, public parks?
Posted by Stubbornson at June 27, 2006 02:58 PM