It is a fact of life that in our society we produce materials that are dangerous, hazardous, and toxic, whether intentionally (the production of powerful acids) and unintentionally (the releasing of radiation). In a non-connected world these facilities must be carefully manned to achieve rigorous monitoring, putting people at risk, and lives in danger. A fully networked mesh of redundant sensors that not only send data feeds to monitoring station is safer locations, but that also have ability to act on changes in hazardous materials levels (liquids, gasses, etc.) can allow for much safer materials handling and infrastructure management. In turn, this allows for a level of detection, and therefore also of response, that is simply not possible today.
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