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Huawei’s Joy Tan to Discuss AI Climate Solutions at Foreign Policy’s Virtual Climate Summit
April 22, 2021 GMT
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PLANO, Texas, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Huawei Technologies USA’s Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, Joy Tan, will be participating on a panel at Foreign Policy’s upcoming Virtual Climate Summit. Taking place on April 27 and 28, the event will bring together top government officials, industry leaders, and issue experts to drive awareness to climate priorities and highlight innovative strategies for global solutions to urgent climate problems. John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, will be delivering the keynote address in an opening conversation with Ravi Agrawal, Editor in Chief of Foreign Policy. Virtual registration and the event agenda can be found here.
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If a tree is illegally cut down in a remote section of the rainforest, does anyone hear the sound? If that section of the rainforest is using Rainforest Connection’s treetop surveillance technology, then yes, someone actually does hear the sound. They also act on it.
The forest-monitoring technology, dubbed “Forest Guardians”, started off in 2012 as an idea to use recycled, solar-powered cellphones fitted with artificial intelligence software to monitor the activity and biodiversity of the surroundings. Re-fangled cell phones were mounted several hundred feet in the air, directly onto trees in the Supayang forest in Sumatra, Indonesia, where they listened to the sounds of the forest, connected to existing cell phone networks, and sent mobile alerts to rangers in the field when anything out of the ordinary was detected. Newer versions are now based on custom logic boards but cell phone devices are still operating in some countries, like Ecuador, where upgr
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Clipped onto a rope, climbing high up in a tree swaying in gusts of wind, Topher White finally reaches the roof of the rainforest and opens a laptop to run checks on a machine he built to transmit 24-hour live sound from the surrounding forest.
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SOLOK, Indonesia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Clipped onto a rope, climbing high up in a tree swaying in gusts of wind, Topher White finally reaches the roof of the rainforest and opens a laptop to run checks on a machine he built to transmit 24-hour live sound from the surrounding forest.
The machine is one of 27 “Guardian” sensors eavesdropping on forests in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province, to listen out for chainsaws as a way to tackle illegal logging in the region.
Over the next five or six years, White hopes to install tens of thousands of these audio sensors in forests around the world.