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There has been a great deal of maturity in the tools and approaches to sustainability problems over the past four years since V1 Magazine was launched. At the global and regional scale, we’ve seen an increasing application of sensors and systems to monitor, analyze and adapt to global change. At the local and city scale, [...]
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The French company ECO Counter has created and deployed sensor networks to count pedestrians and cyclists in urban and natural environments. The system is made up of three parts that include a sensor to detect pedestrians or cyclists, a data logger that saves detection data, and software to analyze and share the data. The system [...]
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Eyes on Earth is an interactive visualization site for images and data from NASA’s 15 currently operating earth satellites. There are a number of new features, with timelines, an image gallery, an improved interface, and up-to-date data for sea level height and surface temperature. The aim is a daily view view of our dynamic planet [...]
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Brushfires are a costly and dangerous natural disaster across Australia, and researchers at Edith Cowan University have developed low-cost sensors to help alert the authorities and the public. The $100 sensors cover a range of 2km, and detect temperature, oxygen, and carbon dioxide to sense smoke. They then send alerts either via the Internet or [...]
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Wasn’t it just yesterday that the idea of unmanned aerial platforms seemed like science fiction? With the successful deployment of drones for recent military operations, the technology has come a long way in a short period of time. While the image of the bubble-headed armed aircraft-sized drone platform is etched in our minds, these sensing [...]
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The city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is adopting a monitoring and forecasting system to support both its water and energy systems that uses real-time information to manage infrastructure and operations related to the effects of climate change. The initiative is called Climate Proof, with aims to make the city climate resilient by 2025. In [...]
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Rio de Janeiro has just launched a new data center that coordinates real-time data about the city and combines data feeds from 30 agencies. This IBM Smart City initiative was profiled over the weekend in a feature in The New York Times. The system includes video feeds from subway stations, detailed weather forecasting, and an [...]
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The China Earthquake Administration has just launched a new earth observation system to monitor the Earth’s crust. The GNSS-based system has a network of 260 full-time observing stations, and 2,000 part-time stations that closely monitor their positions and communicate those throughout the network. The project began in Dec. 2007, with a total cost of 524 [...]
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Following the success of Twine, there’s a new similar Kickstarter open hardware project called Ninja Blocks that has quickly received strong backing. The Ninja Block acts as a hub to connect you more closely with your life, alerting you to such actions on web apps as Tweets, Facebook posts, and whether your friends are playing [...]
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