Connectivity

  • Watching a forest for wildfire: a reference design

    In a remote forest, the earliest minutes of a fire decide what follows. This reference design shows how a wildfire observing site can watch for smoke, measure fire weather the way agencies already use it, and…

  • Observing an open-pit mine: a reference design

    An open-pit mine moves rock every day, and every move changes the slopes, the ground and the air around it. This reference design shows how a mine observing site watches slope movement, blast effects and dust,…

  • Observing the open ocean: a reference design

    Far from shore, every observation has to be made, powered and sent home by the instrument itself. This reference design shows how a moored buoy and a profiling float watch the sea and the water beneath…

  • Observing a mountain valley: a reference design

    In a mountain valley, snow, slope and weather change faster than any one observer can follow. This reference design shows how a valley observing site watches them together, works around the terrain, and keeps deciding when…

  • Observing a working farm: a reference design

    On a working farm the daily question is water: how much the crop used, how much the soil still holds and when to irrigate. This reference design for observing a working farm answers it with soil…

  • Observing a city block: a reference design

    Air, heat and movement change from one street to the next. This reference design for observing a city block puts sensors and small cells on the street furniture, corrects cheap sensors against a reference, and publishes…

  • Observing a coastal port: a reference design

    A port works at the meeting point of weather, water and traffic. This reference design shows how one observing site can watch all three, keep working when its links fail, and hand every value on with…