IoT Shoreline: Wave, Weave

Info                  Individual Work, 02-05/2022, Academy
Instructor       Dr. Joseph A. Paradiso, joep@media.mit.edu
Institution      MIT Media Lab, Responsive Environments Group
Honor              Featured in "BSLA Landscape Architecture + Climate Action" lightning talk
                         1st Place in “DLA2022 - Poster Competition Prize”

Geotextile tubes as submerged breakwaters are the shoreline climate-adaptive infrastructure. The project proposed fiber sensing, a weavable sensor for geotextile tubes, to capture environmental changes, soil, and waves, specifically in this project, enabling an IoT shoreline. The research includes fiber sensor prototype development and two set experiments - deformation experiments on fiber sensors of varying diameters and treatment and water tank waves experiments on breakwater mockups.

Fiber Optics Sensor Deformation Animation

Water Tank Wave Experiment Animation

Geoengineering on the Shoreline