Telos has partnered with open-source climate expertise firm Telokanda Climate Group to launch an initiative to gather and share climate knowledge in West Africa on the Telos public blockchain.
Telokanda will use the Telos blockchain to assist college college students and farming communities file and share climate knowledge with the objective of bettering local weather analysis, hurricane monitoring and native climate forecasting, the businesses mentioned in a press release Tuesday.
Based on the announcement, the venture was developed by a staff in West Africa which incorporates former Boeing and NASA engineer Nicolas Lopez.
Excessive-altitude climate balloons, launched by residents in West African international locations, will carry light-weight gadgets known as radiosondes up into the air whereas beaming atmospheric knowledge, like strain and temperature and wind pace again to earth.
The venture hopes to inspire residents to take part in climate knowledge assortment by growing a technique of sending digital forex immediately to individuals who launch their climate balloons, incentivizing well timed and constant launches, the announcement mentioned.
The announcement mentioned that after a climate balloon transmits knowledge to the blockchain, a wise contract will set off funds in Telos tokens (TLOS) to the operators’ digital wallets. Every reward of about $15 could be transformed to native fiat currencies just like the Nigerian Naira or Ghanaian Cedis by way of the Sesacash app.
A spokesperson for the venture advised CoinDesk by way of electronic mail that, at first, rewards will come from the Telos Employee Proposal System however sooner or later, the funds will come from NGOs that wish to use the information for climate forecasting and analysis.
“This venture can shortly develop into one that may save lives and assist forestall billions of {dollars} in climate injury whereas rewarding native contributors for his or her efforts,” Chief Architect of the Telos blockchain, Douglas Horn, mentioned in a press release to the press.
Beginning out, Telokanda plans to have every college launch one balloon per week, scaling as much as every day launches by 2021, the spokesperson mentioned.