- Published on January 9, 2020
- In AI Features
How India Could Use Ocean-of-Things To Monitor Its Marine Environment
- By Sejuti Das
With the Internet of Things covering the whole Earth and connecting everything under the sun — it’s time for the seven seas to join in. In the recent news, a defence agency of the United States, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), intended to take the connected device technology, IoT, into the oceans with their new Oceans-of-Things (OoT) initiative. The ocean 2.0 program is aimed at gaining a situational awareness over oceans using small, commercially available IoT devices and sensor systems.
Considering the vastness, with approximately 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by ocean, it seems a little impractical for DARPA to succeed with OoT. However, one can take into account the environmental limitations such as absurd weather conditions, and find a workaroun
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Sejuti Das
Sejuti currently works as Associate Editor at Analytics India Magazine (AIM). Reach out at sejuti.das@analyticsindiamag.com
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