This document provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) and discusses potential applications of extending IoT principles to monitor natural environments, termed the "Internet of Nature."
It defines IoT as low-power wireless sensors and actuators that can communicate remotely to monitor and control the physical world. Examples of existing IoT applications include home security systems and irrigation control. The document argues that existing standalone sensor systems could be improved by connecting them via wireless networks to allow for real-time monitoring from anywhere.
It proposes applying these concepts to listen to and understand forests by developing wireless "EnvTranslator" devices to collect data from trees about stress levels and transmit it via an "Env2Cloud" system for analytics.
4. Environment 2 Human Communication
How we perceive surrounding environment
Environmental parameters The Senses & “Actuators”
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5. Environment 2 Human Limits
What are we missing?
o Ubiquity
o Anytime
o Range
o Precision
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6. Common stand alone SENSORS
Automatic sensors are already in our daily life
Thermometer Anemometer Presence Sensor
Hygrometer Gas Meters Seismograph
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7. Common stand alone ACTUATORS
Automatic actuators are already in our daily life
Toilet floater Mechanical Timer
Thermostatic Valves
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8. Common IoT stand alone systems
IoT systems are also already in our daily life
Burglar alarm system Automatic irrigation system
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9. What are we still missing?
Computer metaphor (1)
Stand Alone System Internet
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10. What are we still missing?
Computer metaphor (2)
Stand Alone Portable WiFi Low Power
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11. What are we still missing?
Sensors & actuators simultaneously are...
Very low power
To be grid-independent and requiring little maintenance
Interoperable & Cloud
To be grid independent and requiring little maintenance
Wireless
To communicate without cable
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24. Very low power
Up to 10 year on a little battery
Interoperable & Cloud
Natively Cloud based and interoperable at Gateway level
Wireless
Local RF up to 5 Km! Gateway GPRS plug&play!
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26. A dream... in a dream...
Internet of Nature?
Listening to the Nature,
translating it to understand its
stress level
bringing it to the cloud
in real time
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30. UP TO NOW
REALIZED BUSINESS SOLUTIONS & Main Customers
SOLD
DESIGNED
Water pipes Metering
Sewag
e Trash
Parkin
Teleheating g
Building
Acoustic
technolog Monuments
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Air
Bridges/Tunnel
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Gas
Leakage
Forest
VOC
Agricultur
Rado e
n Wildfires
Dam
s Landslide Floods
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33. Where does energy come from?
World Total Primary Energy Consumption
Fossil Fuel: 80%
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Source: Source: IEA 2007
Wood: 1.5% Source: ISI Web 2009
34. Forests are....
energy producer and energy-waste cleaner
The largest biomass 9 billion tons of CO2
energy source today is absorb every year by forests
wood
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