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Environmental Monitoring at
The Quoin, Tasmania.
Using IoT to understand natural landscapes
BACKGROUND
The Quoin is a private property in the Tasmanian Midlands dedicated to conserving and restoring biodiversity.
The property spans 5,000 hectares and is the home to three endangered animals and three critically endangered ecological communities, including the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) and wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax fleayi).
The Quoin’s strategy is to develop and deploy technologies, financial models and management practices that enable conservation at scale, then utilise storytelling to share learnings so they can be adopted and advanced across the world.
Indicium is proud to be one of the technological partners deploying technology to advance conservation for the benefit of all species.
DATA REQUIREMENTS
Property managers need real-time data relating to weather conditions, soil and fuel moisture levels and bushfire risk. This information helps inform safe and effective land management practices.
Property managers need to access stored data for historical analysis, visualising data in a way that enables comparison across different sites across the property.
Given the wide range of technology devices deployed across the property, the solution needed to seamlessly incorporate a diverse array of IoT sensors and devices to monitor various environmental metrics.
THE QUOIN'S ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SOLUTION
To support The Quoin in gaining a holistic understanding of their property, Indicium has deployed a sensor network that monitors environmental conditions, helping to manage resources more effectively. Indicium's LoRaWAN network, which covers the property, transmits data from these devices. The network will operate through three LoRaWAN gateways installed to ensure a communication range of 10 km.
The monitoring goals on the property are grouped into two categories: localised weather/environmental monitoring and fire risk and detection.
A sensor bundle including a weather station and soil moisture sensor have been deployed to collect environmental monitoring data. These devices provide real-time data on temperature, humidity, rainfall and wind direction, along with the moisture and temperature levels in the soil.
Atmospheric CO2 sensors and fuel moisture sensors have been installed to monitor bushfire risk, generating real-time data to help predict the likelihood and severity of bushfires at key points on the property and trial the effectiveness of different modalities for fire detection.
IN-SITU IOT DEVICES
GATEWAY
INDICIUM STACK
END USER DASHBOARDS
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING BENEFITS
The solution supports informed decision-making by actively providing real-time data on environmental conditions, thereby enhancing efficiency in ongoing property monitoring.
ENHANCED PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH
The combination of atmospheric and fuel moisture data will help forecast bushfire likelihood and severity, enabling The Quoin’s team to make decisions to preemptively manage bushfire risk for the property's ecosystems and inhabitants.
PREDICTION OF BUSHFIRE RISK
The data collected will enable The Quoin to make targeted interventions, such as selected watering of restoration areas based on soil moisture levels.
IMPROVED EFFICIENCIES IN RESOURCE ALLOCATION
The data collected will help to understand the impact of weather on flora and fauna on the property and can be used as a complementary data set for research projects.
IMPROVED ECOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING
Data storage will support long-term environmental management by enabling pattern matching and predictive modelling.
PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS AND PLANNING
Using the INDICIUM Stack, the solution is capable of integrating data from future technologies deployed on the property.
EASILY SCALABLE