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SUMMARY:Boris Dessimond: From Data Loggers to the Cloud: Building the ESD
 N\, an Open-Source IoT Infrastructure for Environmental Sensing in Easte
 rn North Carolina
DESCRIPTION:Water Resources Center\n\nEnvironmental research increasingly
  demands continuous\, high-resolution data\, yet much of field monitorin
 g still relies on standalone loggers that are read manually and fail sil
 ently. While commercial telemetry closes this gap\, it introduces expens
 ive cellular subscriptions\, proprietary data models\, and vendor lock-i
 n. As monitoring efforts scale\, these barriers compromise data ownershi
 p\, limit automated quality control\, and make long-term deployments fin
 ancially unsustainable.\n\nThis talk explores the Environmental Sensing 
 and Data Network (ESDN)\, an open-architecture alternative built at the 
 ECU Water Resources Center to solve these challenges. Since mid-2024\, t
 he ESDN has scaled to 110 nodes\, 14 LoRaWAN gateways\, and 162 sensors 
 across eastern North Carolina. Assembled entirely from off-the-shelf com
 ponents\, it streams over 34 million records into a self-hosted ThingsBo
 ard backend with a 95% packet delivery ratio\, ensuring complete control
  over data quality from the field to the cloud.\n\nWe will break down ea
 ch component of the ESDN's four-layer sensing stack\, from the physical 
 field sensors and LoRaWAN wireless transport to the cloud infrastructure
  and user-facing dashboards. We will explain exactly how each layer oper
 ates\, why it succeeds where traditional loggers fail\, and the financia
 l advantages of scaling an open network. Ultimately\, this talk serves a
 s a practical blueprint\, demonstrating why research groups should adopt
  these accessible technologies to build their own automated\, end-to-end
  data pipelines. No electrical engineering degree required.\n\nJoin onli
 ne: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/233641206799607?p=48kJ9h2xVt4Mlp8D8
 L\n\nhttps://speakerslate.com/events/boris-dessimond-rfzz2
URL:https://speakerslate.com/events/boris-dessimond-rfzz2
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LOCATION:Flanagan 265
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