Telit Wireless Solutions has announced contribution of the company’s cellular M2M technology to the MolluSCAN Eye Project. The France-based environmental science project is an international effort run by a multidisciplinary group of basic researchers and university professors - biologists, electronics specialist, mathematicians, and webmasters. The project, which started in 2006 in Arcachon Bay, France, seeks to detect changes and status in pollution levels of water in earth’s oceans by reading and interpreting electronically monitored movement and behaviour of bivalves such as oysters, giant clams, and Icelandic scallops.
A waterproof encased unit which is submersed next to the animals acquires data and sends it to an above-water, dry unit which transmits the data via cellular network to the master server at the project’s lab using a Telit UC864-G GSM/GPRS module.
“The MolluSCAN Eye project represents a real evolution in environmental sciences. It is easy to envision a new growing field of applied science emerging from the success of this project. A broad array of types of connected biosensors deployed everywhere helping people and governments clean up our planet and keep an eye on our environment as the world’s population grows. Telit is proud to be a part of this experiment and this new science,” said Dominikus Hierl, Chief Marketing Officer, Telit Wireless Solutions.
The Telit UC864-G GSM/GPRS is a remote device with full-blown microcomputer system, which runs on Linux operating system.
