Combination of
nature and electronics

Logging requires permission from the landowner. Logging without permission is illegal, so it is extremely important to be able to determine who owns a piece of land and the land's boundaries. Determining boundaries is especially difficult on mountains that are not within GPS range. It can take many hours to physically seek out boundary stakes. Our first goal is to streamline this process. Our next goal is to increase brand value. There are so-called "brand" trees named after the location where they are grown, but it becomes extremely difficult to determine where a tree is from once it has been logged. By resolving this, we believe that we can improve brand value and help enable fair trade.

Landowner rights for mountain land are becoming increasingly complicated. In order to streamline the work involved in determining who owns a piece of land, we intend to visualize land boundaries. More specifically, we will embed transmitter chips capable of being read using radio waves inside boundary stakes hidden in forests, in order to make it easier to find them. This will also help us to accumulate data on raw lumber. This involves embedding chips in trees to track whether or not they have been cut down. This would help improve wood traceability, and could also even improve brand value and help enable fair trade.