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What kind of "feedback" do you get from the mussels in a polluted environment? Is it death or something more interesting?
by mrlala 6y ago
What kind of "feedback" do you get from the mussels in a polluted environment? Is it death or something more interesting?
- hrrsn 6y ago>Mussels open the shells and every now and then take in a small amount of water, filtering out everything that is suitable for eating. When the water is polluted, they do their best to separate from it, and everyone’s shells just close at the same time. This happens within two minutes. If two or three clams close, it doesn’t have to mean anything, but if there are eight, it’s an alarm. Then our role is to find out what has upset them so much and find out if it is a real or a false alarm – says Podolski.
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- studius 6y agoWhatever it is, it seems like we should put some GPS and transmitters on those clams and put them online.
- girvo 6y agoIoM: Internet of mollusks. I know we’re being tongue in cheek, but I do wonder if there is anyway to actually use them as online sensors without causing too much undue harm?
- AnHonestComment 6y agoWhy not just point a webcam at a bed of them? You can do image analysis to count the shellfish in the image, and attach an “open” or “closed” status to each. Once you have a reliable field of Boolean values, you can detect anomalies in the close count. You could then have a grid of tanks with inlets from the clean water supply and outlets to the sewer where you monitored (more or less real time) the reaction to our clean water supply.
- andylynch 6y agoLooks like they are using magnetic sensors, this would would very simply, similar to the ones on doors for burglar alarms.
- Dwolb 6y agoIf there’s anything I love about working in the IoT space, it’s the variety of applications people work on. I’m pretty sure we’ve seen shrimp farming applications but no mollusks yet.
- peterburkimsher 6y agoThe prototype will be run on shell scripts.
- gibs0ns 6y agoShells come in all shapes and sizes, I hope they will be compatible.
- r00fus 6y agoStraight out of Accelerando.
- DanBC 6y agoSo, slightly different but here's a nice video from Steve Mould about hepatitis being spread around the world by freshwater mussels, which were contaminated when storm drains overflowed into a river, taking sewer effluent with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJLKhsLx18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJLKhsLx18