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ALL DESIGN TECHNOLOGY LIVING TRANSPORTATION ENERGY SCIENCE BUSINESS PODCASTS Alex Davies Technology / Clean Technology May 14, 2012 UC Berkeley Campus Life /Video screen capture To keep an eye on the quality of the water in California, a team from the University of California, Berkeley has developed robots that don't just swim around, they tweet their findings. The Floating Sensor Network is a new approach to measuring water quality, ditching fixed location sensors for mobile units that can monitor a variety of locations. The team, headed by Alexandre Bayen from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) released 100 of the robots into the Sacramento River on May 9. The Sacramento-San Joaquin river system contains two thirds of the state's fresh water, the majority of Californians' drinking and irrigation supply. Because the robots, which are equipped with GPS units, float with the water (and those with propellers can move freely), they provide a more dynamic and detailed understanding of the state of the river water. Even better, they use Twitter to report what they find, under the handle @fsnandroid61. Tweeting Robots Monitor Water Quality in California Rivers RELATED WATER WATCH SHOWS SAFE SWIMMING SPOTS IN EUROPEAN WATERS NEW WATER CALCULATOR HELPS IDENTIFY WAYS TO REDUCE IMPACT ON LOCAL WATER RESOURCES CLEANER WATER HELPS CORALS COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE (DUH.) MOST POPULAR Amazing Photos of Insects Covered in Dew Get up close and personal with the natural world with these amazing photos. by Jerry James Stone in Natural Sciences 10 All-Purpose Cleaners for a Green Home Use this list to clean without spreading toxic chemicals around your home. by Blythe Copeland in Green Home Homemade Chicken Coop Built for $40 Don't miss the beer-can shingles on this DIY beauty that was built in a day by Alex Davies in Green Architecture fsn.android.61 @fsnandroid61
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ALL DESIGN TECHNOLOGY LIVING TRANSPORTATION ENERGY SCIENCE BUSINESS PODCASTS
Alex DaviesTechnology / Clean TechnologyMay 14, 2012
UC Berkeley Campus Life/Video screen capture
To keep an eye on the quality of the water in California, a team from the
University of California, Berkeley has developed robots that don't just swim
around, they tweet their findings. The Floating Sensor Network is a new
approach to measuring water quality, ditching fixed location sensors for mobile
units that can monitor a variety of locations.
The team, headed by Alexandre Bayen from the Center for Information
Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) released 100 of the
robots into the Sacramento River on May 9. The Sacramento-San Joaquin river
system contains two thirds of the state's fresh water, the majority of
Californians' drinking and irrigation supply.
Because the robots, which are equipped with GPS units, float with the water
(and those with propellers can move freely), they provide a more dynamic and
detailed understanding of the state of the river water. Even better, they use
Twitter to report what they find, under the handle @fsnandroid61.
Tweeting Robots Monitor Water Quality in CaliforniaRivers
RELATED
WATER WATCH SHOWSSAFE SWIMMING SPOTS IN
EUROPEAN WATERS
NEW WATER CALCULATORHELPS IDENTIFY WAYS TOREDUCE IMPACT ON LOCAL
WATER RESOURCES
CLEANER WATER HELPSCORALS COMBAT CLIMATE
CHANGE (DUH.)
MOST POPULAR
Amazing Photos ofInsects Covered in DewGet up close and personal with the
natural world with these amazing
photos.
by Jerry James Stone in Natural Sciences
10 All-Purpose Cleanersfor a Green HomeUse this list to clean without
spreading toxic chemicals around
your home.
by Blythe Copeland in Green Home
Homemade ChickenCoop Built for $40Don't miss the beer-can shingles
on this DIY beauty that was built
in a day
by Alex Davies in Green Architecture
fsn.android.61@fsnandroid61
RSS for Alex
For now, the newly-released robots are measuring salinity, pollution and water
flow. Future versions could be modified to test for various chemicals, and be
released in emergency situations such as levee failures or contaminant spills, to
provide a real-time breakdown what's going on.
Via Discovery News.
Tags: California | Water Conservation | Water Crisis
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