Repurposing smartphones into an eco-friendly compute cluster for AI and IoT

Have you asked your phone what it wants to be when it grows up? Perhaps a marine biologist

That old mobile phone sitting in the drawer and weighing heavily on your environmental conscience? It could become a mini marine biologist and an object of curiosity for sharks, according to three researchers from the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science who have demonstrated a way to turn mobile phones into data centres to help conserve wildlife or boost other sustainability projects. The impact of e-waste Consumer electronics such…

Researchers are turning outdated phones into eco-friendly mini data centres

Researchers have discovered a low-cost way to turn old smartphones into compact data centres, helping track marine life and optimize public transport systems.

Repurposing smartphones into an eco-friendly compute cluster for AI and IoT

Hackster.io reports that for under $10, researchers turned old smartphones into an eco-friendly compute cluster. A research group led by engineers at the University of Tartu has reimagined what a data center might look like in the future. They have taken what is quite literally often treated as trash, and turned it into a compute cluster with sufficient resources to tackle all sorts of real-world AI and IoT problems. This realization led the te…