Getting connected to the physical world will dramatically change the way we live and work today. By deploying wireless sensor networks in environmental and agricultural areas, we can now gain access to real time information leading to new discoveries about our natural world and more efficient and higher yielding crops.
When you deploy electronic sensor networks outdoors in the harsh elements required for studying the environment and agriculture, you can face some daunting challenges. The farther you move from an electricity source, the greater the need to make your technology low power, ubiquitous, weather resistant and self sustaining.
Intel Research has taken on these challenges and deployed sensor networks in environmental and agricultural applications ranging from the vineyards in the Napa Valley to bird burrows on Great Duck Island. Please learn more about these applications by exploring the research projects below.
Research Applications
Vineyard Smart Agriculture - Intel researchers are studying how wireless sensor networks can one day aid farmers to grow better crops.
Great Duck Island Habitat Monitoring - A robust sensor network on Great Duck Island off the coast of Maine aids biologists in the study of Leach's Storm Petrels, a species of seabird that have mysteriously selected this locale as their breeding ground. (Intel Research Berkeley / UC Berkeley)
