Sense-T's director, Ros Harvey, says where possible the projects will re-purpose existing data sources for new purposes, such as using environmental monitoring data to improve farming methods.
Visitors to the charity's lifeboat stations wanted to see inside the latest Shannon class of lifeboat, so as part of the RNLI's goal to create more immersive content it re-purposed existing 360° photos into a virtual tour.
Additionally, it encompasses mechanisms to enable management of the discovery of services and resources within the WSI and provides, through specific services, the capability for re-purposing existing sensor network deployments and creating VSNs, according to user needs.
Ingeniously, these micro-swimmers might re-purpose existing medical devices: adapted MRI machines can steer these magnetically charged bots - like drones - inside the body.
Many BSS have no explicitly defined purpose, but existing rebalancing strategies can support or clash with the purpose or suggested benefits of a BSS.
For this purpose, the existing KOMPASS method was extended for use in evaluation of service-type socio-technical systems.
From there, businesses need to consider which SDGs reflect their own purpose, review existing sustainable development work in the bigger picture context of the goals, and identify where they stand to make the most difference, says Cramer.
It sells itself as qualitative judgment and always arrives wreathed in a lot of specious guff about how "the music on the album is the only thing that matters", but if the Mercury prize has any real purpose for existing, it should probably be to alert a wider audience to a great album they haven't heard, but might conceivably like.
For this purpose, an existing shear wall in which several openings are symmetrically embedded was studied.
