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Come on operators, waive the bill for science!
> Megafon's offer to bail out the team, reported by RIA Novosti news, means they can continue monitoring the eagles' routes, collecting vital data to help their survival.
A solution could be to design the system to make calls directly to a list of ornitologists or ornitologist societies in the other countries, that shouldn't be really complicated to arrange and then ask them to return the data by standard e-mail. Is a small world. Or store the eagles travel data in a cloud, that feels also poetically appropriate for this case
I'm sure it's somewhat hard to change the system once deployed. They could just get a cheap global tariff -- but the eagles won't swap SIM cards themselves.
This kind of systems are not designed to last forever; Harness belts in young animals are designed to break, fall and be recovered.
It was designed for position reporting. If course not everywhere would have an APRS receiver, but I'm sure the tracker could cache data until it finds a receiving station.
A solution could be to design the system to make calls directly to a list of ornitologists or ornitologist societies in the other countries, that shouldn't be really complicated to arrange and then ask them to return the data by standard e-mail. Is a small world. Or store the eagles travel data in a cloud, that feels also poetically appropriate for this case
A solution could be to design the system to make calls directly to a list of ornitologists or ornitologist societies in the other countries, that shouldn't be really complicated to arrange and then ask them to return the data by standard e-mail. Is a small world. Or store the eagles travel data in a cloud, that feels also poetically appropriate for this case
I think roaming charges apply even when you are calling a number in the same county. Really this is already a good solution, it just needs the right tariff.
This is where the ham radio APRS protocol would come in handy. It was designed for position reporting. If course not everywhere would have an APRS receiver, but I'm sure the tracker could cache data until it finds a receiving station.
A solution could be to design the system to make calls directly to a list of ornitologists or ornitologist societies in the other countries, that shouldn't be really complicated to arrange and then ask them to return the data by standard e-mail. Is a small world. Or store the eagles travel data in a cloud, that feels also poetically appropriate for this case
In South Africa the traffic lights had some cards in them at one point and the same things happened. Traffic lights smashed so the cards could be used.
Looking at the map, I wonder how light pollution affects their migration routes.