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The San Diego Fire Department is leveraging a project funded by the National Science Foundation that uses M2M technology to monitor natural environments and provide high-speed Internet access to field researchers. This type of wireless environmental monitoring has huge implications for academic research as well as public safety. Monitoring systems can be used for environmental event prediction and public alerts and can improve the scientific community's ability to predict the occurrence and scope of natural disasters.
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