Internet of Things Laboratory for Real-Time Ecological Monitoring
The Earth Hour is the world’s largest global action in which millions of people, institutions, companies, and organizations turn off the lights for an hour. The Earth Hour 2021 theme will focus on “Climate Change to Save Earth.” Montenegro will support the action Hour for the planet Earth by turning off the lights for one hour on Saturday, March 27, 2021, in the period from 20:30 to 21:30. More information can be found on the movement’s official website.
Traditionally, since 2012, March 21 has been celebrated as International Forest Day. At its session in 2012, the United Nations General Assembly decided to declare the day of the spring equinox as this important ecological date with the aim of raising awareness of the importance of forests and green areas. More precisely, this date includes three holidays: Forest Day, Tree Day, and Planting Day. More information can be found at the following link.
March 22 has been marked as World Water Day since 1992. On this day, events have been traditionally organized with an aim to raise awareness of the importance of water for the general population. The United Nations points out that “The value of water is about much more than its price.” So, let’s stop for a moment and ask ourselves the question: How much do we value water? For more details on this topic, visit the following link.
Organized by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, and the expert consulting company ICE, on March 16, 2021, a training called INTERNATIONAL MARKETING AND COMMERCIALIZATION was held in the premises of the Ministry, with the aim of gaining skills necessary for marketing and commercialization of Innovation projects. Most common barriers, risks, and legal problems common for market creation or entrance were addressed and incorporated in this session. The attendee could learn how to advance their project visibility, organization’s credibility, the attractiveness of offerings, key variables to create a brand, handle a crisis communication and build skillsets necessary to create, manage and grow Sales from New.
Despite the aggravating circumstances in which the ECOMON project has been implemented from the very beginning caused by the COVID-19 virus pandemic, the members of the project team have successfully implemented all the planned activities for the first project year. More precisely, an in-house IoT laboratory for measuring water and air pollution parameters has been established in the premises of the University of Donja Gorica. In addition, the implemented system, which consists of sensor equipment that was purposely procured for the needs of the project and which is co-financed by EU, is executed in the operational environment, tested, and validated. In this way, the conditions were created to install sensor nodes at the planned locations. These activities will be implemented by the end of March 2021, in order to put the sensor equipment into operation and ensure the collection of real-time parameters of environmental pollution.
