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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Axol

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Publication Research

FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean

Katija, K., Orenstein, E., Schlining, B. et al. FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean. Sci Rep 12, 15914 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19939-2
Article Research

MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera

The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.
Article Research

Ocean vital signs

MIT scientists hope to deploy a fleet of drones to get a better sense of how much carbon the ocean is absorbing, + how much more it can take
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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RF-EATS: Food and liquid sensing in practical environments using RFIDs

RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…
Article Research

The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants

Signal Kinetics head Fadel Adib and other junior faculty members talk about the ways the J-WAFS’ seed grant program has catalyzed their work
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Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to batt…
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Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…
Article Research

Why this deep-sea explorer thinks diversity is so important for science

To oceanographer Katy Croff Bell, the seas’ uncharted depths are full of opportunities to engage women and people of color in science.
Article Research

An underwater navigation system powered by sound

New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture.
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Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At the…
Article Research

How to send underwater messages without batteries

A new device extracts energy from ambient noise
Project Research

Low-cost invasive species management in coastal ecosystems: A case study in Benin

All over Africa, experts use satellite Earth Observation (EO) data for applications such as monitoring crop health or assessing the risk of…
Article Research

Underwater energy harvesting with a data-link twist

A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.
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Ufuoma Ovienmhada of MIT Media Lab Space Enabled group is using satellite data to curb the effects of invasive species in Africa

Ufuoma Ovienmhada discusses her work using satellite data to help manage invasive water hyacinth in Benin.
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MIT creates battery-free sensor for deep-sea and extraterrestrial exploration

An underwater internet of things monitoring the effects of climate change or sampling waters on distant planets
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A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration

Submerged system uses the vibration of “piezoelectric” materials to generate power and send and receive data.