IoT sensors helping to mitigate coastal flood hazards

Blog credit: Louise Darroch The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. Thanks to a handy cellular modem, an evolving data broker system and the cloud, our Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies (CreamT) project […]

Data data everywhere – a need to stop and think!

The raw material for our work in the Digital Environment programme is of course DATA and, as ever, we need improved means of sourcing and accessing appropriate datasets to support our modelling activities. NERC of course is not short of data!! There are a series of data centres associated with each of the environments, for the exact […]

Raspberry Pi Exhibition Demonstrator

In this post, we describe the development of a demonstrator for an exhibition using a Raspberry Pi. The Digital Environment team are planning to be in support of NERC in attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual conference and exhibition in Seattle, USA in February 2020, and are making preparations. One […]