New High Tech Tools For Water and Swine Research at University of Saskatchewan

By Neil Billinger Apr 11, 2018 | 3:06 PM

State-of-the-art equipment is being purchased with funds from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. (CFI)

Research Chairs John Pomeroy and Howard Wheater were awarded $200,000 to order a custom drone. It will be used by the newly established Smart Water Systems Laboratory.

The lab is studying the impacts of climate change and attempting to predict future water-related risks such as floods, drought and fires.

The sensor-equipped drone will be able to cover hundreds of square kilometres in one day.

A $125,000 CFI grant was awarded to support Yolande Seddon’s swine welfare research. The money will go toward a suite of automated feeders for piglets and growing pigs, an automated water monitoring system for use in a commercial barn and software that analyzes swine behavior.

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