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The PermaSense Project: A Fusion of Science and Nature

Dive into the innovative PermaSense Project, revolutionizing environmental monitoring using wireless sensors. Explore its funding, team dynamics, network management, media attention, and future plans, all spearheaded by Jan Beutel and Stephan Gruber. Gain insights into their collaborations, media coverage, and plans for expanding data analysis and sensor capabilities. Discover Jan Beutel's personal journey and reflections on PermaSense, blending engineering expertise with a passion for the mountains. Unleash the power of technology in combating global challenges and natural hazards.

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The PermaSense Project: A Fusion of Science and Nature

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  1. The PermaSense Project Executive Information

  2. The PermaSense Project in a Nutshell • Monitoring the environment withmany cheap, battery powered, wireless sensors • New frontiers in understandingalpine permafrost and global warming • Spectacular application for cutting edge technology

  3. PermaSense Funding • Project started in 2006 under the auspices of the National Competence Center in Research - Mobile Information and Communication Systems; a large, Swiss funding body for research on future wireless and sensor systems • Other funding sources include governmental agencies interested in the application of the results • Extension is ongoing with a new nano-tera.ch grant • Funding for the next 3 years operation is currently secured

  4. Some Notes About the Team • Unique collaboration of computer science (engineering) and geo science • All members are very idealistic, with a strong affinity to nature and mountain sports • Different kinds of backgrounds, often in unconventional combinations: Geography and electronics, computer science and mountain guiding, mathematics, etc. • Core team of about 7, with helpers, friends and advisors totaling to about 20 people involved

  5. Management and Network • Co-leadership of all day to day business • Stephan Gruber, Uni Zurich - Geo science • Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich - Technology • Management and advisory committee • Experience senior faculty and researchers, public authorities, policy makers • Network of related research projects • Sponsors and industry partners • Technology makers, local support on field sites • Equipment sponsors Hilti and Arc'teryx

  6. Media Attention • A hot and scenic topic • Regular attraction of different media • Print, radio, television

  7. Future Plans - The next couple of years • The real science (data analysis) starts now • Extensions from currently simple sensors to complex modes of sensing (images, seismic, large-scale slope movements) are under way • New application contexts - new field sites • Concrete natural hazard scenarios in the Alps • Greenland, Svalbard, Antarctica, … are under discussion

  8. Some Notes About Myself • Jan Beutel • born 1973, grew up in Germany, Austria, Saudi Arabia, US • MSc, PhD in electrical engineering (ETH Zurich, UC Berkeley) • Certified ski instructor (ISIA) and alpine mountain guide (IFMGA/UIAGM) • Lived and roamed in the mountains all my life • Home base in Zurich (CH), Pitztal and St. Anton/Arlberg (AT) • Alpine guiding for alpincenter-lech.at • Expedition to Gasherbrum II, summited alpine style, July 2006

  9. Arlberg crystal powder

  10. Eiger dreams

  11. Lunch break on the summitGasherbrum II 8035m

  12. Magical Pitztal glacier ice

  13. Some Personal Reflections on PermaSense • The project has created and released an enormous amount of energy and dynamics. • The overarching topic (global warming, natural hazards) is both timely and sustainable. It’s a current and hot topic. • For myself, bringing together both profession (engineering) and passion (mountains, guiding) is like a dream has come true. • I believe that with our technology we can give a new (previously unheard of) tool or methodology to environmental scientists enabling them to assess contexts that are otherwise not accessible. In doing so on a topic of interest and importance to society, my motivation is doubled.

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