Technology for Development

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Technology for Development

• CEDT perspective

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MDG Environment and Human Wellbeing A practical
Strategy (2005)

• Improve Small Scale Agricultural Systems
• Promote Forest Management for protection and
  sustainable production
• Combat threats to fresh water resources and
  ecosystems causing water scarcity in dry areas
  and flooding in wet ones, and pollution and
  salinization
• Address the drivers of air and water pollution
• Promote Science and Technology for environmental
  sustainability, and expand the use of scientific
  and indigenous knowledge related to environmental
  management by policy makers and the general public

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Technology for Development Matrix
Wireless Sensor NW
Connectivity
Low-cost Computing
Power supplies
Water resources
Forest management
Pollution monitoring
Wildlife management
Disaster management
Agricultural production
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EPFL and CEDT Contributions

• Wireless sensor networks
• Low cost sensors
• Low cost computing (handheld devices)
• Autonomous power supplies
• Sample deployments
• Field studies and field deployments
• Formation on interdisciplinary teams specialists
  in Agriculture, wildlife, sociology, management

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COMMON-Sense Net

• Goal Help define and implement farming
  strategies for poor farmers in a situation of
  water scarcity.
• Desired Outcome decision support system based on
  environmental monitoring via sensor networks
• Project partners EPFL, IISc, Chennakeshava Trust

• Status
• Multihop test-bed operating in the fields
  (Karnataka)
• Migration of the application to tinyOS-2
  (Switzerland)
• Ongoing design of a data processing system
• http//commonsense.epfl.ch

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COMMON-Sense Net

• Strategy and Schedule
• Focus on scientific community in a first phase
• Design of sustainable and replicable strategies
  for farmers
• Easier communication for the design and
  development of the application
• January
• TinyNode 1st revision ready to go to the field
• February-April (India)
• Deployment
• Usability study agronomists
• Assessment of agriculture practices first
  results
• May-August
• Survey on data usage with scientists
• Deficit irrigation (in collaboration with HYDRAM,
  CEDT)
• 2nd half 2007
• Explore low-cost constraints
• Disruptive effects of technology (continued)
• Deficit irrigation assessment (continued)

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Publications

• J. Panchard, A. Osterwalder, ICTs and Capacity
  Building through Apprenticeship and Participatory
  Methods, Applied to an ICT-based agricultural
  water management system, IFIP WG 9.4, Abuja 2005
• J. Panchard, S. Rao, T.V. Prabhakar, H.S.
  Jamadagni and J.-P. Hubaux, Improved Water
  Management for Resource Poor Farmers via Sensor
  Networks, submitted at ICTD06, Berkeley
• J. Luo, J. Panchard, M. Piorkowski, M.
  Grossglauser and Jean-Pierre Hubaux, MobiRoute
  Routing towards a Mobile Sink for Improving
  Lifetime in Sensor Networks, submitted to
  INSS2006

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Applications of Technology for Conservation and
Environment

• A new addition to CEDT lines of activities

Alan M. Eddison Modern Technology Owes Ecology
and Apology CEDT rewording Modern Technology
Owes Conservation a Contribution
By André Pittet
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The Team

• N.S. Dinesh
• H.S. Jamadagni
• B. Kaushik
• K. Nagamani
• A. Pittet
• A.P. Saravanan

• S. Shivaswamy
• B.K.A.N. Singh
• G. Sudarshan
• L. Umanand
• Many students

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The Motivation

• We (or at least some of us) at CEDT believe that
  our competencies should (also) be used to
  contribute to conservation issues.

Characteristics of the Team

• Enthusiasts
• Nature lovers
• Working on this for the pleasure
• Often found missing (in the jungle)

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Some of our Partners

• Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES, IISc)
• Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences
• Various Forest Departments
• Periyar Foundation
• Wildlife Trust of India
• Wildlife Conservation Society
• Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the
  Environment (ATREE)
• Aaranyak

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A Few Projects in this Line

• A number of projects in energy saving systems
• Automatic weather stations
• Rain gauges with GSM transmission
• Wireless sensor network for agriculture
  (CommonSense project)
• Low cost electric fencing

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A Few Projects in this Line

• Development of camera traps for wildlife studies
• Study of state of the art in animal tracking
  technologies
• Animal tracking devices using GPS and GSM
• User interface for GPS collar data processing
• Pugmark processing for tiger identification
• Bee counting device

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Major project camtrap

• Application of Camera Traps for Wildlife Studies
  in Bandipur Tiger Reserve
• Usage of water holes
• Elephant herd structure
• Small and elusive mammals
• Wildlife / human conflicts

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