Merida Yucatan. Huawei will collect information on the behavior and habits of animals in the Yucatan to learn about the effects that climate change has had on its ecosystem, through cameras and sensors.
MartÃn Portillo Concha, director of digital strategy for Huawei Mexico, explained that the information generated by the cameras and sensors will go through the communication of 3G and 4G cell phones that people no longer use but that still have potential use, as in this case for send data to the cloud center of the company of Chinese origin.
Once the information is obtained in the Huawei cloud, algorithms based on artificial intelligence will be generated with images and acoustic data that will be used by the government, researchers and students to advance conservation strategies for endangered species.
Today, in Mexico phones with 3G predominate. This technology, which allows sending emails, messages and surfing the Internet, is accessed by 52% of the population. But the forecast of the global organization GSMA is that by 2025 3G will drop to 30%, while 4G technology will prevail in the country, reaching 54% of the population. But Huawei has already found an alternative use for 3G.
Wakie Wu, vice president of Huawei Latin America and director of the Board of Huawei Mexico, specified that the company will use algorithms based on artificial intelligence to purge the data so that it can serve researchers to generate strategies focused on preserving and caring for endangered species. of extinction.
“The data transmitted from acoustic-type monitoring sensors and cameras will allow us to obtain more knowledge of endangered species,” Xue said at a press conference.
The species care initiative is part of the Tech4Nature project in partnership with the Yucatan government, the state Secretariat for Sustainable Development, by C Minds, the Polytechnic University of Yucatan and the Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Mauricio Vila, governor of Yucatan, specified that for the start of the project there will be 15 cameras and the participation of 50 students from the Polytechnic University.
Nadine Seleem, Program Officer for the Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), specified that the data generated can be used to generate comprehensive public policies that promote nature-based solutions. In addition, he said, this project can lay the foundations for the generation of biodiversity bonds to cover investment opportunities and resource mobilization focused on conservation.
These types of projects have been carried out in four countries such as Spain, China, Switzerland and the Mauritius Islands and now in Mexico.
Editor’s note: Huawei corrected the information provided that was inaccurate and we have added it to this article.
