Welcome to SmartPlanet

“If you are not part of the solution,
you are part of the problem.”
African proverb

In these times of serious concerns about the environment and ecology, news are saturated by apocalyptic information, false flags and stories manipulated by ideology and hidden agendas. Even though there are serious protests by student movements and other civil society organizations demanding solutions, these are rarely provided.

Our Mission is to listen and to connect with transparency, developing comprehensible solutions that are available to anyone interested in helping. Our solutions use the most advanced technologies available, working in conjunction with the most innovative companies in technological research and development fields.

We believe that is imperative to be proactive and to stop “feeding” the problems for political and ideological and economical purposes. The moment calls not for divisiveness but unity in achieving the common goal of taking care of our common home. It is time for a more harmonious coexistence with our fellow men and the environment.

Good will and wisdom, with technological support, will achieve it.

“Be part of the solution!”

The Platform

“Without data, you are just another person with an opinion.”
W. Edwards Deming

To mitigate the imminent environmental crisis, it is essential to achieve efficiency and sustainability in the use of natural resources. This influences extremely important areas of activity such as agriculture, mining, energy generation and urban development. Institutions that are involved in these areas are potential customers of the SmartPlanet platform.

Intelligent monitoring of critical resources and facilities is essential to achieve efficiency and sustainability. Comprehensive monitoring of large areas generates a huge amount of data. But only when this big data is processed properly does it become useful insight.

The SmartPlanet platform removes the barriers to effective interpretation of monitoring parameters by providing an open marketplace that offers everything needed to create environmental insights, integrate these insights into legacy applications, react to special events, present the results & trends in a powerful dashboard and make key insights available to the population in an intuitive and didactic way.

Data Acquisition

Georeferenced data acquisition with multiple methods and devices like satellite, aircraft, weather radars, sensors, manual metering etc. are available in different formats and are sent to the platform at different frequencies and through different communication protocols. The SmartPlanet platform provides a range of connectors capable of receiving and interpreting these georeferenced data, and systematically storing them in its database.

Processing & Analysis

The SmartPlanet platform offers in a marketplace a variety of algorithms and tools for preparing, manipulating, and analysing georeferenced data. User-defined workflows are automatically executed using the selected data, tools and algorithms, and generating insights and events. These events can be used also to trigger the execution of other workflows.

Presentation & Response

Several ways to visualize data and insights, and to react to events are available to the users in the marketplace of the SmartPlanet platform. They can combine these components, like charts, in-context reports, and widgets, to define meaningful dashboards. Customizable, highly configurable dashboards provide users with the flexibility to share information, view status, monitor progress and trends, find correlations between parameters, improve workflow processes, access quick links and other functions.

Management

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
Winston Churchill

Environmental projects, and especially those for the recovery of degraded areas, must meet a range of requirements defined by standards, norms, laws, stakeholders, etc. It is necessary to guarantee the fulfillment of these requirements, defining execution time, success indicators, necessary resources, and more.

In addition, many environmental projects have research characteristics in the seeking for searching for better methods and technologies. This involves risks and learning, which must be monitored and documented so that future projects can make use of the best practices available.

The SmartPlanet Platform offers management tools to handle these and other aspects of environmental projects.

Transparency

“A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.”
Dalai Lama

Many stakeholders and especially the population in general have a legitimate interest in accessing insights obtained from environment monitoring, like status of environmental regeneration projects, dam conditions, water quality, etc. The TerraBeat app provide in intuitive and didactic way real-time and reliable information about the environment to any person that has downloaded it.

A mobile app with gamification strategies and a focus on transparency, learning and collaboration is the main channel between companies, researchers and governmenton one side, and the population and customers on the other. Through the app data can be acquired to feed back into the platform in a virtuous cycle.

Besides the access to real-time data, one of the main benefits of the TerraBeat app will be the dissemination of reliable and serious information about the actual situation of the environment in urban as well as rural areas. Likewise, the app will offer users the chance to build up engaged communities around various environmental issues, and to have a voice in the matters.

Collaboration

“We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.”
Simon Mainwaring

A lot of relevant information will be available in real-time on the mobile app TerraBeat that people can use to start connecting and interacting. The app use gamification techniques to improve user engagement. User are motivated to share knowledge to third parties and social medias, to “adopt” a piece of a degraded area and support its recovery project, to learn about the importance of a healthy environment and so on.

Autonomy

Freedom to establish one’s own behavior patterns.

Purpose

Focus on the problem to be solved.

Mastery

Balance between challenge, fun and simplicity.

Progress

Easy to understand reward system.

Interaction

Designed to encourage and reward social networks.

Companies interested in attaching their names, projects, or products to state-of-the-art solutions in the environmental field can sponsor projects or the platform.

To improve collaboration opportunities, the SmartPlanet platform provides an open marketplace that offers georeferenced data, algorithms to process and analyze these data, tools to integrate results into legacy applications and to react to special events, and visual components to present the results & trends in a powerful dashboard and to make key insights available to stakeholders and the population.

Providers can use this marketplace to offer data, algorithms, tools and/or components by joining the partner program and certifying their products.