Smart buoys help brace Great Lakes for environmental challenges

LANSING Lake Erie is the first of the Great Lakes getting connected to the internet with a series of offshore “smart” buoys. And it’s not just for sending texts on the water. The buoy project, called the Smart Lake Erie Watershed Initiative, is providing invaluable data to researchers and anglers. Created by Freeboard Technology, the network makes wate...

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