6. Technology at the service of protecting the environment
By boat to the island of Montecristo, with the director of GreenPeace, Alessandro Giannì
Monitoring, video surveillance and environmental control system.
In some interesting projects the information technologies video surveillance and sensors have been applied environmental protection, such as control the nesting of endangered species like the Corsican seagull, the big shearwater, the shearwater controlled capture of wild boars and mouflons, monitoring of the state of the sea. These projects have been realized in collaboration with ElbaTech and the Tuscan Archipelago National Park, in the islands of Pianosa, Montecristo, Elba.
The biggest challenge was the networking of cameras and sensors in very remote and wild areas where they obviously weren’t electric power and Internet or mobile connections. The problem has been solved with solar power, large capacity UPS batteries, wireless data connection via radio links (HiperLan) and satellites.
Mounting a hyperlan antenna and a solar panel, with Marco and Riccardo
The Montecristo team: Alessandro Giannì, Sandro Magrì, Manuela Adami (ElbaTech), Giuliana Costa, Riccardo Galletti, Marco Sartore.
A portable wireless data connection between the Enfola cape and Mount Capanne, Elba, for tests and measurements
A solar panel at cape Brigantino, Island of Pianosa
A colony of rare corsican seagulls filmed by video surveillance cameras
Nesting of shearwaters on Pianosa Island, with infrared camera
An underwater camera to monitor the conditions of the Pianosa sea
fish in the crystal clear waters of Cala Giovanna, Pianosa
The moorish marina of the island of Pianosa
The cove of the Scarpa rock, Pianosa, waters worthy of a tropical paradise
The cove of the Roman port, behind the Marquis’ residence, Pianosa
View of Cala Maestra in Montecristo, the only landing point for the boats on the island