Sensor network takes to sea
BT has developed a system of remote sensor networks based in buoys to survey coastal erosion and which could help to predict floods and tsunamis.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is backing the project, which is intended to improve the way the Environment Agency (EA) and other bodies monitor environmental changes.
The self-organising collegiate sensor (Secoas) network technology combines low-level artificial intelligence, electronic sensors and wireless radio. Networked buoys decide when and how to transmit the data they compile.
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