Launching the Grand Challenges for Ocean Conservation

The ten most pressing Grand Challenges in Oceans Conservation were identified at the Oceans Big Think and described in a detailed working document:A Blue Revolution for Oceans: Reengineering Aquaculture for SustainabilityEnding and Recovering from Marine DebrisTransparency and Traceability from Sea to Shore:  Ending OverfishingProtecting Critical Ocean Habitats: New Tools for Marine ProtectionEngineering Ecological Resilience in Near Shore and Coastal AreasReducing the Ecological Footprint of Fishing through Smarter GearArresting the Alien Invasion: Combating Invasive SpeciesCombatting the Effects of Ocean AcidificationEnding Marine Wildlife TraffickingReviving Dead Zones: Combating Ocean Deoxygenation and Nutrient Runof

Digital transformation of peatland eco-innovations (‘Paludiculture’): Enabling a paradigm shift towards the real-time sustainable production of ‘green-friendly’ products and services

The world is heading in the wrong direction on carbon emissions where we are not on track to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C; Ireland is among the countries where overall emissions have continued to rise. The development of wettable peatland products and services (termed 'Paludiculture') present significant opportunities for enabling a transition away from peat-harvesting (fossil fuels) to developing 'green' eco-innovations. However, this must be balanced with sustainable carbon sequestration and environmental protection. This complex transition from 'brown to green' must be met in real time by enabling digital technologies across the full value chain. This will potentially necessitate creation of new green-business models with the potential to support disruptive innovation. This timely paper describes digital transformation of paludiculture-based eco-innovation that will potentially lead to a paradigm shift towards using smart digital technologies to address efficiency of products and services along with future-proofing for climate change. Digital transform of paludiculture also aligns with the 'Industry 5.0 -a human-centric solution'. However, companies supporting peatland innovation may lack necessary standards, data-sharing or capabilities that can also affect viable business model propositions that can jeopardize economic, political and social sustainability. Digital solutions may reduce costs, increase productivity, improve produce develop, and achieve faster time to market for paludiculture. Digitisation also enables information systems to be open, interoperable, and user-friendly. This constitutes the first study to describe the digital transformation of paludiculture, both vertically and horizontally, in order to inform sustainability that includes process automation via AI, machine learning, IoT-Cloud informed sensors and robotics, virtual and augmented reality, and blockchain for cyber-physical systems. Thus, the aim of this paper is to describe the applicability of digital transformation to actualize the benefits and opportunities of paludiculture activities and enterprises in the Irish midlands with a global orientation.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Implementation model of an integrated blockchain and IOT system to healthcare ecosystem

Mestrado em Gestão de Sistemas de InformaçãoNo cenário de transformação digital em que estão inseridos todos os setores de atividade, para melhorar a eficiência, a produtividade e reduzir o tempo e os custos, é necessário investir em novas tecnologias. Novas tecnologias como Internet of Things (IoT) e Blockchain são desenvolvidas para melhorar a eficiência de processamento, a criação de oportunidades de negócios, a regulamentação de requisitos, a segurança e transparência e descentralização de informações, e provavelmente serão as próximas tecnologias disruptivas que transformaram os diversos setores de atividade. Por sua vez, o setor saúde tem enfrentado dificuldades com o surgimento de novas doenças e precisa se transformar e se reinventar para manter sua legitimidade e continuar cumprindo suas obrigações para com os cidadãos. A implementação de novas tecnologias acaba sendo uma das abordagens mais eficazes para aumentar a eficiência, segurança, gerenciamento, análise de big data e performance dos dados. Devido a isso, este projeto propõe um modelo de framework Blockchain e IOT aplicada a saúde. A implementação engloba a criação de um aplicativo (i.e., pacientes) e um site (i.e., médicos, hospitais, farmácias, saúde publica), os dados partilhados pelos usuários são armazenados no blockchain conectado ao aplicativo e o acesso ao Blockchain é liberado por smartcontracts. O objetivo do modelo proposto é que os dados sejam descentralizados e possibilita o acesso a todos os conectados ao blockchain. E para não infringir a proteção dos dados pessoais dos pacientes, foi tomado o cuidado de que o usuário paciente seja o “proprietário” de todos os seus dados e compartilhe-os com qualquer entidade de saúde que deseja. Para atingir os objetivos mencionados, foi definida uma metodologia de validação por conceito do modelo proposto. A validação do conceito do modelo foi dividida em cinco etapas, seguida da análise qualitativa das entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com pacientes, médicos e gestores de saúde. Como resultado da validação por conceito foi observado que a opinião de todos os entrevistados é que a implementação do modelo proposto é vantajosa e poderá contribuir com avanços no setor saúde. Portanto, uma vez que médicos e hospitais tenham acesso a mais dados de saúde dos pacientes, esses dados podem colaborar para um diagnóstico mais preciso e o ecossistema da saúde obtém avanços tecnológicos que contribuem para uma melhor gestão dos dados e combate as novas doenças.In the digital transformation scenario in which all sectors of activity are inserted, to improve efficiency, productivity and reduce time and costs, it is necessary to invest in new technologies. New technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain are being developed to improve processing efficiency, the creation of business opportunities, requirements regulation, security and transparency and information decentralization, and are likely to be the next disruptive technologies that have transformed the various sectors of activity. In turn, the health sector has confronted difficulties with the emergence of new diseases and needs to transform and reinvent itself in order to maintain its legitimacy and continue to fulfill its obligations to citizens. The implementation of new technologies is one of the most effective approaches to increase efficiency, security, management, big data analysis and data performance. Because of this, this project proposes a Blockchain and IOT framework model applied to health. The implementation includes the creation of an application (ie, patients) and a website (ie, doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, public health), the data shared by users is stored on the blockchain connected to the application and access to the Blockchain is released by smart contracts. The aim of the suggested model is that the data is decentralized and allows access to all those connected to the blockchain. And in order not to infringe on the protection of patients' personal data, care has been taken that the patient user is the “owner” of all his data and shares it with any health entity he wishes. To achieve the objectives was applied a validation methodology by concept of the proposed model. The validation of the model concept was divided into five stages, followed by a qualitative analysis of the semi-structured interviews conducted with patients, doctors and health managers. As a result of the concept validation, it was observed that the opinion of all interviewees is that the implementation of the proposed model is advantageous and may contribute to advances in the health ecosystem. Therefore, once doctors and hospitals have access to more patients health data, these data can collaborate for a more accurate diagnosis and the health ecosystem obtains technological advances that contribute to better data management and to fight new diseases.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Unmanned Vehicle Systems & Operations on Air, Sea, Land

Unmanned Vehicle Systems & Operations On Air, Sea, Land is our fourth textbook in a series covering the world of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (CUAS). (Nichols R. K., 2018) (Nichols R. K., et al., 2019) (Nichols R. , et al., 2020)The authors have expanded their purview beyond UAS / CUAS systems. Our title shows our concern for growth and unique cyber security unmanned vehicle technology and operations for unmanned vehicles in all theaters: Air, Sea and Land – especially maritime cybersecurity and China proliferation issues. Topics include: Information Advances, Remote ID, and Extreme Persistence ISR; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles & How They Can Augment Mesonet Weather Tower Data Collection; Tour de Drones for the Discerning Palate; Underwater Autonomous Navigation & other UUV Advances; Autonomous Maritime Asymmetric Systems; UUV Integrated Autonomous Missions & Drone Management; Principles of Naval Architecture Applied to UUV’s; Unmanned Logistics Operating Safely and Efficiently Across Multiple Domains; Chinese Advances in Stealth UAV Penetration Path Planning in Combat Environment; UAS, the Fourth Amendment and Privacy; UV & Disinformation / Misinformation Channels; Chinese UAS Proliferation along New Silk Road Sea / Land Routes; Automaton, AI, Law, Ethics, Crossing the Machine – Human Barrier and Maritime Cybersecurity.Unmanned Vehicle Systems are an integral part of the US national critical infrastructure The authors have endeavored to bring a breadth and quality of information to the reader that is unparalleled in the unclassified sphere. Unmanned Vehicle (UV) Systems & Operations On Air, Sea, Land discusses state-of-the-art technology / issues facing U.S. UV system researchers / designers / manufacturers / testers. We trust our newest look at Unmanned Vehicles in Air, Sea, and Land will enrich our students and readers understanding of the purview of this wonderful technology we call UV.https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/1035/thumbnail.jp

Disruptive Technologies with Applications in Airline & Marine and Defense Industries

Disruptive Technologies With Applications in Airline, Marine, Defense Industries is our fifth textbook in a series covering the world of Unmanned Vehicle Systems Applications & Operations On Air, Sea, and Land. The authors have expanded their purview beyond UAS / CUAS / UUV systems that we have written extensively about in our previous four textbooks. Our new title shows our concern for the emergence of Disruptive Technologies and how they apply to the Airline, Marine and Defense industries. Emerging technologies are technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized, such that they are figuratively emerging into prominence from a background of nonexistence or obscurity. A Disruptive technology is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry.That is what our book is about. The authors think we have found technology trends that will replace the status quo or disrupt the conventional technology paradigms.The authors have collaborated to write some explosive chapters in Book 5:Advances in Automation & Human Machine Interface; Social Media as a Battleground in Information Warfare (IW); Robust cyber-security alterative / replacement for the popular Blockchain Algorithm and a clean solution for Ransomware; Advanced sensor technologies that are used by UUVs for munitions characterization, assessment, and classification and counter hostile use of UUVs against U.S. capital assets in the South China Seas. Challenged the status quo and debunked the climate change fraud with verifiable facts; Explodes our minds with nightmare technologies that if they come to fruition may do more harm than good; Propulsion and Fuels: Disruptive Technologies for Submersible Craft Including UUVs; Challenge the ammunition industry by grassroots use of recycled metals; Changing landscape of UAS regulations and drone privacy; and finally, Detailing Bioterrorism Risks, Biodefense, Biological Threat Agents, and the need for advanced sensors to detect these attacks.https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/1038/thumbnail.jp

FinBook: literary content as digital commodity

This short essay explains the significance of the FinBook intervention, and invites the reader to participate. We have associated each chapter within this book with a financial robot (FinBot), and created a market whereby book content will be traded with financial securities. As human labour increasingly consists of unstable and uncertain work practices and as algorithms replace people on the virtual trading floors of the worlds markets, we see members of society taking advantage of FinBots to invest and make extra funds. Bots of all kinds are making financial decisions for us, searching online on our behalf to help us invest, to consume products and services. Our contribution to this compilation is to turn the collection of chapters in this book into a dynamic investment portfolio, and thereby play out what might happen to the process of buying and consuming literature in the not-so-distant future. By attaching identities (through QR codes) to each chapter, we create a market in which the chapter can ‘perform’. Our FinBots will trade based on features extracted from the authors’ words in this book: the political, ethical and cultural values embedded in the work, and the extent to which the FinBots share authors’ concerns; and the performance of chapters amongst those human and non-human actors that make up the market, and readership. In short, the FinBook model turns our work and the work of our co-authors into an investment portfolio, mediated by the market and the attention of readers. By creating a digital economy specifically around the content of online texts, our chapter and the FinBook platform aims to challenge the reader to consider how their personal values align them with individual articles, and how these become contested as they perform different value judgements about the financial performance of each chapter and the book as a whole. At the same time, by introducing ‘autonomous’ trading bots, we also explore the different ‘network’ affordances that differ between paper based books that’s scarcity is developed through analogue form, and digital forms of books whose uniqueness is reached through encryption. We thereby speak to wider questions about the conditions of an aggressive market in which algorithms subject cultural and intellectual items – books – to economic parameters, and the increasing ubiquity of data bots as actors in our social, political, economic and cultural lives. We understand that our marketization of literature may be an uncomfortable juxtaposition against the conventionally-imagined way a book is created, enjoyed and shared: it is intended to be

The Yoga Analogy: Scaling-Up the U.S.’s Renewable Energy Sector Mindfully with New Technologies, Evolving Standards, Public Buy-In, Data Sharing, and Innovation Clusters

This paper focuses on innovative renewable energy devices, exploring how scientifically-based industry standards that continuously evolve with engineering design technology, the public’s buy-in and feeling of connectedness with groundbreaking devices, and innovation clusters that accelerate device development through data sharing and public-private partnerships can all help advance the U.S.’s domestic renewable energy industry. Part I analyzes challenges inherent to scaling- up novel renewable energy technologies while simultaneously developing the industry standards regulating them. Part II uses the Block Island Wind Farm, an offshore wind demonstration project, and Pavegen’s globally-deployed arrays of piezoelectric smart flooring tiles as examples illustrating the importance connectedness and engagement play in garnering public buy-in during a cutting-edge renewable energy device’s roll-out. Part III discusses private investors’ critical role in bearing financial risks associated with backing experimental technologies, promoting aesthetically unusual device designs, and integrating novel devices into the built environment. Part IV explores the advantages that data anonymization and data sharing within a data trust construct can produce for constituents in an innovation cluster, particularly those functioning together within a public-private partnership. Part V explores the benefits of introducing a renewable energy device prototype in an innovation cluster, where the government, academia, and industry collaborate and share data through public-private partnerships in an engaged, supportive, and technologically savvy community focused on accelerating the development of a particular industry. This paper concludes that by setting industry standards that continuously evolve in tandem with technologies they aim to regulate, having businesses’ investment-backed expectations remain a key driving force in renewable energy device development, and deploying government funding through innovation clusters that support data sharing and public-private partnerships in a particular industry, the U.S. can strike a desired balance and mindfully scale-up its nascent renewable energy industry

Implementation of industry 4.0 in the development of the space industry

Treball Final de Grau en Administració d'Empreses. Codi: AE1049. Curs 2022/2023The deployment of Industry 4.0, which is defined by the integration of sophisticated technology and data-driven processes, has transformed several industries, allowing for higher productivity, efficiency, and flexibility. The space industry is one that has been heavily impacted by Industry 4.0. Driven by technical developments and the desire to explore beyond Earth's borders, the space industry has recognized the potential of Industry 4.0 to improve its operations and push the boundaries of space exploration even further. Space exploration is an enthralling and necessary pursuit that feeds human curiosity while pushing the limits of knowledge and technical innovation. It provides a once-in-alifetime opportunity to explore the universe's mysteries, generating awe and amazement in individuals of all ages. Furthermore, there are various scientific discoveries and technological advances that emerge because of space travel. Fascinating statistics underscore its significance: Over 2,700 exoplanets have been confirmed by NASA's Kepler mission alone, opening new frontiers in the search for extra-terrestrial life, while the International Space Station has hosted more than 240 astronauts from 19 countries, fostering international collaboration and expanding our understanding of human adaptation to space