How Big Data Is Helping Snuff Out California’s Wildfire Epidemic
California is presently in the grips of a major drouth , one of the worst of this generation . The region ’s lack of hurry has not only hindered California ’s farming diligence , it ’s also sour our woods into kindling . But researchers at the University of California San Diego have a potential solution : just wire up all the trees to the Internet of Things . Wildfires are a common happening in California and , under normal conditions , toy a full of life office in maintaining the health of our forests by clearing out dead plants and trees , thereby free the nutrients engage within them ....