Пастухи несколько недель уже как начали выпас скота на пастбищах высокогорной Аджарии, но для переработки надоев отсутствует электроэнергия в ряде сел. Batumelebi попыталось узнать, когда скотоводам наконец-то будет подано электричество. — «Электроэнергия уже подведена к большинству летних курортов, а в остальных пригорьях активно ведутся работы по восстановлению поврежденных линий электропередачи, и в ближайшие пару дней […]
Day: June 18, 2024
26 IoT (Internet of Things) climate devices will be installed this summer in rural communities of Armenia to collect climate data, allowing for the research, prevention, and prediction of weather crises and analysis of local climate patterns. The project is implemented through the Climate Net initiative run by TUMO Labs – an educational hub that provides free education in engineering and technology for individuals over the age of 18.
The devices are installed on top of TUMO Boxes – mini TUMO centers made of recycled containers that serve as satellite TUMO locations in smaller communities. Five TUMO Boxes in Artik, Maralik, Azatan, Panik, and Vazgen Sargsyan University have already been equipped with these devices.
The IoT climate devices are created and deployed by TUMO Labs students who receive educational training where they learn how to make both the hardware and software for the device. The devices measure temperature, humidity and pressure, air quality, air speed, direction, rain, light intensity, and spectral information. This data is open for anyone to use and analyze via the Climate Net website (climatenet.am). The collected data can help predict and reduce the damage of severe weather. In the future, students at TUMO Labs can use this data to create different kinds of weather maps.
Climate Net project manager, Ruben Mirzoyan states, “Armenia is a landlocked country that is susceptible to weather changes and natural disasters, and we don’t have the data gathered in one place. When we do have it, it is often scattered. This new data allows for predictions, research, and even testing.”
The summer stage of installment is part of a larger project to design, construct, and deploy a total of 78 IoT climate observatories and weather forecasting stations at various TUMO Box locations before mid-2025.
Climate Net is a project run by TUMO Labs, a tuition-free education program that connects higher education with industry and enables students to acquire knowledge and practical skills in the fields of technology, applied science, and engineering. TUMO Labs hosts projects from international and national companies, allowing students to work and develop these projects and learn up-to-date skills. Climate Net is one of these projects. Climate Net started in January of 2023 in an effort to make weather data in Armenia comprehensive and available to all.
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A Kazakh company is among the latest targets of US sanctions designed to impede Russia’s ability to wage war in Ukraine.
The United States announced sanctions on June 12 against more than 300 individuals and entities from Russia and other countries that “support [the Kremlin’s] military efforts and avoid sanctions.” The list includes KBR Technologies LLP, an entity registered in May 2022 in the northern Kazakh city of Petropavlovsk near the border with Russia.
“Today’s actions strike at [Russia’s] remaining avenues for international materials and equipment, including their reliance on critical supplies from third countries,” the US statement quoted Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as saying.
According to the Treasury Department, KBR Technologies made hundreds of illicit deliveries of components and other goods via Belarus to Russian entities that manufacture finished electronic products, including those with military applications.
An investigation conducted by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project found that from April to August 2023 alone, $2.5 million worth of high-tech equipment was sent to Russia by KBR Technologies.
The new list of sanctions also includes several entities located in Kyrgyzstan that acted as intermediaries in the purchase and transit of prohibited goods.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and other officials have repeatedly stated that Kazakhstan complies with US sanctions against Russia. But journalistic investigations have shown that the country has been used as a conduit for Russian sanctions-busting activity.
Kazakh authorities have promised to conduct a probe in KBR Technologies’ operations. Minister of National Economy Nurlan Baybazarov downplayed the impact of the sanctions against the Kazakh entity on the broader economy. “On the scale of our country, this is an insignificant impact. One specific company was hit,” he said. “There will be no effect of secondary sanctions.”