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28.12.2014

British researchers plan to equip sheep with Wi-Fi hotspots to bring high-speed Internet access to rural areas. Sheep are no strangers to wearing equipment: in the summer of 2014, they played the role of operators in the Tour de France.

A team of researchers led by Lancaster University professor Gordon Blair plans to explore the possibility of installing Wi-Fi hotspots on sheep farms in British Wales, reports The Daily Mail.

According to the researchers, this can solve the problem of providing high-speed Internet access to remote rural areas. The group received 171,5 thousand pounds sterling (about 14,5 million) for this project.

Researchers suggest that it would be possible to equip remote areas with Internet access by turning sheep grazing in wide open spaces into a chain of wireless signal transceivers.

"This could address the typically slow access speeds and poor network coverage in much of the UK's rural areas," notes The Daily Mail.

Wi-Fi modules can be integrated into digital collars - devices for monitoring the movement of sheep that farmers use.

We add that earlier sheep were already used as a kind of transport for equipment. In July 2014, these animals were equipped with cameras to film the prestigious Tour de France cycling race held in Yorkshire. The cameras on the sheep were controlled remotely.

In addition to the Internet, Blair's team will study the problems of pollution, floods and droughts. Within the framework of the project, water level sensors will be installed in the rivers on the banks and precipitation sensors. A similar system has been installed in Honduras by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Microsoft.

The authors of the project will try to implement one of the basic principles of the "Internet of things" - the ability of electronic devices to communicate with each other and send data to the Internet without human intervention. The researchers note that in rural areas such a concept is more difficult to organize due to the more complex landscape. However, the results are obvious - high-quality network coverage of remote areas and the availability of all kinds of sensors will help to cope with natural disasters and increase the efficiency of agriculture.

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