A young robotics developer in Nigeria has come up with a way to prevent illegal deforestation by tracking the orientation of trees. The Reforest AI device uses an app that signals the exact locations where forests are being stripped.
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00:00So this is Reforest AI, a device I built to track deforestation.
00:10I built it to track if a tree is being cut down currently or not, as trees are huge supporters
00:17of the ecosystem.
00:21What it does is that it tracks the orientation and the angles of trees using two sensors
00:25that are inside there.
00:26It also tracks location of where a tree currently is, so if it's being cut down at the moment,
00:33we can know where the tree is in particular.
00:42So what inspired my innovations is my undying passion to live my dream as a young child.
00:53I thought about a ton of things I could do, some things I saw on TV, and I just wanted
00:59to recreate.
01:00But as I grew older, I thought of functionalities I could add to them to make them practical
01:05in real life.
01:13Sourcing my materials.
01:15Luckily there's a local vendor around my area where I can get electrical components, and
01:19as for parts I really can't get from shops, I recycle to get things done.
01:26Hardware, there's a major challenge, which is getting money to get electrical components,
01:33and that's a major challenge for me.