In our relentless quest to apply sun spot technology to solve real-life problems, we stumbled upon the problem of ecological data gathering in the rain-forest. This gave birth to Project Canopee. This project is being developed by us at SRKNEC in collaboration with an ATREE and Sun Microsystems.

ATREE is a leading wildlife and ecology conservation organization in India. They have undertaken a long-term monitoring program at KMTR (Tamil Nadu) to monitor environmental parameters in the rain-forest Canopy. Project Canopee aims at establishing a wireless sensor network (WSN) using sun-spots to monitor the environment.

This project is also our official entry for the code for freedom contest 09. With a blend of hardware and software, I hope to win the code for freedom contest this time around (last time I simply got a T-Shirt & Certificate). Here’s a short video describing project Canopee:



For more details visit the official website for this project – https://canopee.dev.java.net/

I will shortly be posting about current status of the project!

I love Sun SPOTs (no not the ones that you get in your astronomy class). It has been over a year since I started playing around with these devices, yet this tech continues to amaze me every single day!

SPOT or Small Programmable Object Technology is a device created by the Sun Labs team at Sun Microsystems. It has a powerful processor, flash memory, battery, temperature & light sensor, accelerometer, wireless transmitter & receiver....but the best part it that it is entirely programmed in Java using our very own Netbeans IDE.

Watch this space for some interesting updates and ideas being implemented using the SPOT!