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2 years ago Hello All! We received some helpful feedback on our deliverable's and have made some changes to the above issue that are noted here, and where changes were not made responses are noted here. I hope this helps provide some more clarity around our project and please feel free to ask any additional questions you may have.
P1M1: The deliverable for this milestone is unclear to the team. Could you tighten it up and simplify?
| We made changes to the deliverable to simplify. | New Deliverable's |
|---|---|
| Deploy US902-928 Helium node, Multi-parameter weather sensing, soil sensing, and additional sensor technologies. | |
| DIY Tutorials for sensor assembly and deployments | |
| Testing and reporting on recommended deployment solutions | |
| Wildfire monitoring methodologies report. | |
| Testing Image Transmission over LoRaWAN |
P1M2: The initial analysis and forum should be part of any initial project development, maybe a P1M0. The M1 tutorial and data sample should be a deliverable of P1M1. The work for this milestone is intended to be conducted in concert with the P1M1 but will likely depend on the completion of the P1M1 before a full retrospective can be provided. We changed the funding for this phase to retrospective in the hopes that this will reflect our intention to conduct these phases in concert in our proposal.
P1M3: What is the deliverable here? A report outlining the possibilities? Can you clarify? We added the following summary to clarify that this milestone is primarily about research and reporting.
The interoperability of decentralized data storage solutions will be key in building the next generation of environmental monitoring solutions. While the technologies have come a long way, there are still few successful implementations to date. For this reason a deep dive and subsequent reporting into the current state and limitations of decentralized storage and p2p file transfer technologies is needed. The report will provide of overview of several providers, a summary of the providers we have decided to build on and why, and the code repos we will be utilizing.
P2M2: It looks like the deliverable for this milestone is a report about monitoring drought / flood probability. Can you clarify how you plan to use sensors to provide a metric of actual drought / flood data and how this might be used to monitor the threat of wildfires at some point in the future? If that's part of your vision.
(This seemed like a lot to include in the OP but let us know if we should make an edit) We intend to provide the community with a roadmap to not one but multiple avenues of sustainable environmental monitoring solutions including:
-In general , a combination of metrics including temp, humidity, barometric pressure , wind speed & direction, soil moisture & water capacity in addition to a handful of other metrics worth considering can be used to provide a picture of the probability of flood / drought in a given area. This alone can provide the basis for financial services like parametric insurance, which can in turn be expanded into support for insuring rural farmers against fires when they occur.
-The specific methods , sensors, and pertinent metrics needed to provide backing for financial services can vary widely from ecosystem to ecosystem, and one topography to another, environmental monitoring solutions require field testing , and we felt it best to develop standards within the regenerative finance ecosystem before committing to a methodology. Eventually, recommended methodologies with these things considered will be submitted to the Helium Community and relevant Academia for review and feedback.
- Regenerative Finance marketplaces have the capacity to provide incentive and funding for a wide range of services from data collection and verification to regenerative action like reforestation, and even facilitate disaster relief and mitigation. The methods used to collect the data needed to back these assets will also require the development of market standards. These types of assets have the can widely in scope, from the Micro ( Carbon Sequestration ) to the Macro (Ecosystem Health), and methodologies will be developed and published for supporting a variety of these.
We hope that these answers helped provide the needed clarity. Please let us know if there are any more questions concerning the project or otherwise :)
JessmFromEarth
Project:
The Athena Project: Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Data Verification: Methods, Standards, & Scalable Deployment Solutions
Elevator Pitch:
This project seeks to develop a decentralized data standardization layer on top of the Helium Network to allow interoperable data sets between IoT devices for environmental monitoring. These standards provide the basis for trustless ESG asset verification, and an entire ecosystem of derived regenerative financial (ReFi) services.
Total fiat/hnt ask:
USD $90,000
Name and Address:
Athena LLC:
Timothy Carter, Environmental Data Scientist & Policy Organizer 805 Dahlia St. Denver, CO 80220 https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-carter-2a4a361a9
Christian Casazza, Strategic Market Solutions 41 Jackson Ave, Bayville, NY, 11709 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiancasazza
Project Details:
Environmental Social Governance (ESG) assets are projected to be worth 50 trillion dollars by 2025. The current ESG marketplace is mainly composed of assets backed by nothing more than self-reported figures, with loose, un-standardized reporting regulations. This lack of reporting leaves vast demand for verifying environmental, public health, and governance data that cannot be met in a scalable or cost-effective manner by Web 2 implementations.
Data quality, collection methodology, and interoperability are imperative to create a global environmental data repository. Interoperability is the core advantage that decentralized storage technologies offer, making them far better suited for environmental monitoring than the information silos of their legacy predecessors.
The process of developing industry standards should be carefully cultivated by a network of industry partners. These standards should be tested, subjected to community review, and iterated upon. On this end, we seek to create a forum of various stakeholders in the ecosystem.
Further, investments in environmental monitoring should pay careful attention to scalability, reproducibility, modular design, and ease of deployment. For this purpose, it is beneficial to design and deploy multiple solutions in parallel to reduce costs where possible without sacrificing ease of deployment to a significant degree.
Additional Value to Helium:
We hope to build upon, standardize, and improve the processes developed and deployed by previous and current project participants such as https://github.com/dewi-alliance/grants/issues/13 wherever possible. We hope to aid these projects in creating incentive structures for sustainable business models.
Roadmap:
The long-term goal of this project is to develop a system of standards and methodologies that enable the development of an Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Data Standardization layer. This proposal is broken into 2 phases. All reports will be published for the community throughout the project and aggregated into a learning resource at the end of phase 2.
Phase 1 is for research, reporting, and coordinating industry participation in a forum to develop the basis for a set of recommended standards and methodologies. Our report will include interviews with various stakeholders, data quality verification methods, and data quality financial incentive models.
Phase 2 is intended to deploy, test, and iterate upon the recommendations developed during Phase 1. The aim is to develop a durable, scalable, and cost-effective off-grid monitoring solution that meets industry standards, fills an economic niche, utilizes decentralized storage, and incentivizes data collection. We will do this through testing and comparison of materials and engaging the Helium and scientific community throughout the iterative process.
Final Product:
In-depth reporting and educational course material hosted through an educational web application concerning:
Deployment and testing of approved monitoring solutions to detect the probability of drought/flood and other wildfire mitigation-related observations.
Publication of an open-access environmental data asset using decentralized storage solutions. Arweave, IPFS, Ceramic etc. This will provide the foundation for an end-to-end ESG asset verification layer on the open web.
Establishment of a committee of stakeholders around ESG assets on data standards
Examples of organizations to be engaged in the development of standards include. but are not limited to:
[Toucan Protocol](https://toucan.earth/) [Moss Earth](https://moss.earth/) [dClimate](https://www.dclimate.net/) [Arbol](https://www.arbolmarket.com/) [Moonjelly Dao](http://moonjelly.io/home) [United States National Forest Service](https://www.fs.usda.gov/) [Colorado Parks & Wildlife](https://cpw.state.co.us/)
Paraguay National Forest Service [Shamba](https://shamba.link/) [Astrea](https://astraea.earth/)[](https://www.athena.wiki/intro.html)
Next Steps:
After completing both of these phases, we plan to launch a full-scale deployment in Paraguay. The deployment is intended to incentivize land stewardship, protect local agriculture, and combat the eutrophication of freshwater ecosystems in the region of Ybycui National Park. The study will provide a reproducible end-to-end market application and use case for the Helium Network.
Team or projects social & websites:
https://athena.wiki/[](https://twitter.com/athenaequity) https://twitter.com/athenaequity[](https://www.linkedin.com/company/athena-equity-solutions/?viewAsMember=true) https://www.linkedin.com/company/athena-equity-solutions[](https://github.com/AthenaEquity)
Code Repos of team or key applicants:
https://github.com/AthenaEquity[](https://github.com/T0admomo)
https://github.com/T0admomo[](https://t0admomo.github.io/)
https://t0admomo.github.io/