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Whatever it is, it seems like we should put some GPS and transmitters on those clams and put them online.
by studius 6y ago
Whatever it is, it seems like we should put some GPS and transmitters on those clams and put them online.
- girvo 6y agoIoM: Internet of mollusks. I know we’re being tongue in cheek, but I do wonder if there is anyway to actually use them as online sensors without causing too much undue harm?
- AnHonestComment 6y agoWhy not just point a webcam at a bed of them? You can do image analysis to count the shellfish in the image, and attach an “open” or “closed” status to each. Once you have a reliable field of Boolean values, you can detect anomalies in the close count. You could then have a grid of tanks with inlets from the clean water supply and outlets to the sewer where you monitored (more or less real time) the reaction to our clean water supply.
- andylynch 6y agoLooks like they are using magnetic sensors, this would would very simply, similar to the ones on doors for burglar alarms.
- Dwolb 6y agoIf there’s anything I love about working in the IoT space, it’s the variety of applications people work on. I’m pretty sure we’ve seen shrimp farming applications but no mollusks yet.
- peterburkimsher 6y agoThe prototype will be run on shell scripts.
- gibs0ns 6y agoShells come in all shapes and sizes, I hope they will be compatible.
- r00fus 6y agoStraight out of Accelerando.