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3 Pathogen Detection and the Internet of Things - Future Prospects for Robotics, Disease Control, and Commercialization
3 Pathogen Detection and the Internet of Things - Future Prospects for Robotics, Disease Control, and Commercialization
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He said that one big challenge, from a technological perspective, is that these threats are mainly invisible to modern sensor networks. Pathogen Detection and the Internet of Things -- Future Prospects for Robotics, Disease Control, and Commercialization 11
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The goal of the Premonition Project is to build a sensor network that can detect these smaller entities to provide timely data The ability to about the biome. Jackson said that the estimate the focus has been on viruses, microbes, and arthropods, which comprise most terrestrial composition of an biodiversity.
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The team filters data until only signals from Pathogen Detection and the Internet of Things -- Future Prospects for Robotics, Disease Control, and Commercialization 13
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The upshot, he said, is that the project is using the mosquito as a sensor to sample what was in the cow. Jackson then discussed the more general problem of looking at existing data sets using metagenomics to consider a sample and understand more about its environment.
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To address that challenge, Jackson said the team has been developing a robotic field biologist specifically focusing on terrestrial arthropods. It chose arthropods because they represent terrestrial biodiversity and they transmit a number of infectious diseases, including the second most significant infectious disease, malaria.
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He explained that each wingbeat sensors costs about 25 cents, and the embedded microcontroller doing real-time processing costs about $10. The third capability needed by the Premonition Project is the ability to do agile engineering in the context of real biology.
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Fingar noted that the Premonition Project has clear applications to health, safety, and protection of the food supply, but asked whether it would be possible to turn the technology to negative uses such as engineering pathogenic threats. Jackson responded that independently of the technologies described earlier, some viruses can be created from scratch from their known genomes.
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He noted that when dealing with data sets this big, it is not possible to flag the contamination manually, but statistical models can account for suspicious data. He said that the team has not yet shared these results with the data sources.
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She asked about Microsoft's theory on interactions with the national security apparatus domestically, Pathogen Detection and the Internet of Things -- Future Prospects for Robotics, Disease Control, and Commercialization 19
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In the genomic community, he said, there is a more general conversation around whether countries should share sequence information digitally. He emphasized that the scientific community believes it would be a major challenge if sequence information could not be shared between countries.
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