TUUL – A fictional story in the Future about IoT, Smart Cities and Big Data.

TUUL – Transformation Unit for Uninhabitable Lands

Trishna Drala watched from her armchair the movement of the “Tuuls” Units. Actually, the drive pattern of the units had changed. Almost 30 years ago, when the first Tuul had been “liberated”, everything happened in a coordinated way and without surprises, a real success in the implementation of the project. Trishna was the coordinator and mentor of much of the program. A Tuul—which meant “Transformation Unit for Uninhabitable Lands” brought self-sustaining and independent technology with small modules. They communicated intelligently; They moved; They specialized independently; And thus, transformed themselves and transformed the environment gradually, that is, in the context of the closest environmental space. The Tuuls had the long-term goal of “cooling” the regions most impacted by climate change, and when they operated in the hundreds, they began to soften the temperate in the local microclimate.

These units needed Drones to operate. The Drones had the function of bringing and taking specific products and components, and could then change an operation of the Tuul itself and make them work together harmoniously. There were Tuuls specialized in Aquaponics; Others in Permaculture; Others in chemical transformations; and so on. They collaborated in the local agriculture, replacing some forms of production of goods that were harmful to the environment, benefiting the citizens of the participating nations.

The Drones sometimes harvested supplies from outside the Tuuls territory, but most of the material came from the horde, making it a self-sustaining community. All were basically powered by solar energy.

They gathered information on location, the environment, the local climate, and began to act to generate change in the climate gradually.

Each Tuuls’ horde could have tens or even hundreds of units, but they were reduced to a certain perimeter, since their function of acting was in the local climate, as soon as this objective was reached, they could return to near original point and to restart their tracks.

They were programmed to operate in a more independent way, including in computational terms, causing each unit to interact in Grid with the whole community. At the same time, they communicated with external power stations, which supplied the Tuuls with meteorological, environmental, and solar forecasting data, and the life systems themselves that depended on each microclimate.

The project received several awards and was broadly expanded across the globe, and today operated across borders, with investment associated with the return of improvements in each location and all developed nations that were interested in maintaining the heavy investment climate in the Tuuls – Because they harvested political, economic, environmental, and even electoral fruits.

These external centers were based on Big Data and received data of all kinds from all locations, making it the largest base on the planet in terms of geography and climate.

However, less-invested nations, namely the less developed world—particularly some regions of Africa and Central America, did not directly reap the rewards of the project, but received support from the “developed world” in an indirect way, as historically always occurred.

Trishna, however, was now heavily charged by the G10 council at the UN itself. Three years ago, she had obtained authorization for a major change: to introduce Big Data, socioeconomic data from the globe, so that a climate situation could have a self-actualization compensation mechanism. Little by little, with the introduction of this information, the Tuuls hordes began to migrate to those less developed regions. It was as if it were a migration of refugees in the opposite direction—they went to the most deprived part of the globe, with objectives of transforming the microclimates that needed more. Some hordes migrate from Europe to Africa, as well as from North America to Central America.

This generated a great deal of controversy around the world, for although the climate problem had already been mitigated in the more prosperous regions, this posed a threat of a reversal of climate change, and an important part of the G10 wanted to eradicate the socioeconomic data of the Big Dates that supported the Tuuls.

As all communities were connected, what actually happened was an expansion of the navigation area of each horde, improving the global distribution of the transformation, but removing more of the climate-transforming power of the nations that invested the most.

A smaller group of the G10, and mainly with a predominance of the G30, pressed for the maintenance of the recent change, and suggested to increase the investment of the same nations that invested today so that the migration of the hordes in a certain moment stopped and it stabilized. Some African communities have begun to reap small benefits from this change, pointing to a long-term trend, if not clear progress, at least survival.

Trishna prepared herself to go to the plenary in 24 hours and to defend the maintenance of socioeconomic data, but with little hope, because she knew that economic power would speak louder, and the less developed bloc would have to wait.

However, his Big Data scientist—Dani Costa—did many studies on the pattern of movement of the hordes to detect, perhaps, a deceleration of the change or even a stabilization of the territory of each horde, realized that it was looking at the wrong place. In fact, the tendency of the climate in the most favored nations in general did not worsen and even improved. Dani realized there was a need so great in microclimates most impacted areas that the overall effect even improved, and even in countries that originated the movement of hordes. The Tuuls had considered—so to speak—that they had to respect each microclimate and perhaps move only what was necessary to avoid harming any area.

Dani sent the data and Trishna put all together. The result was expressive. Project leaders have achieved a significant increase in Tuuls production in the coming years and the maintenance of the program until further notice. Trishna thought how proud she was of her contribution, and wondered how to prepare the next 30 years of project…

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