Survival electronics—prospects for environmental monitoring

Abstract

At present, humanity increasingly realizes the necessity of the struggle for survival. Survival Electronics means electronic devices and systems to save and protect the life, health and dignity of each person from adverse factors of the environment and social interaction. This paper has been prepared to elaborate a strategic conception of electronics for survival on our planet. In the first section of this paper some main tasks of electronic equipment for Survival Electronics are enumerated and potentialities of their realizations and interactions are discussed. In the second section some ethical and legal problems, which may be raised in connection with technical solutions of Survival Electronics, are covered. Any possibilities of financing and organization are brought up in the third section. The same section testifies that the areas of paramount importance on the planet in which to begin the elaborated programme are the developing countries of the tropical zone, and gives an account of some technical aspects for them. In the tropics modern telecommunications, particularly, are in the planning and construction stages and the question is to build them in an optimum way from the stand-point of Survival Electronics. At the moment any information about the required amount of means and systems of Survival Electronics is of interest. So far as electronic means to measure solar radiation, environment pollution and climate change are to be the point of Survival Electronics, it is time to discuss the necessities for the equipment mentioned in given areas, countries and the whole Southern Africa subregion in the near future, and in perspective.