The world's rainforest has been continued to be destroyed at an alarming rate by climate change, but most of it are because of illegal logging. To actively help to restore the rainforest, a newly invented application named the Rainforest Connection, an app that makes use a solar-powered cell phone that is hidden in the trees in the jungle.

According to Digital Trends, the Rainforest Connection app is invented by Topher White, a famous physicist, and engineer who started to use recycled Android phones which go up in the trees called guardian device. Each phone will be placed in the trees as a fancy enclosure that gives a high-power microphone and antenna, which powered by the sun and operates 24 hours a day.

The guardian device will listen and records everything. Once it recorded, the process will begin by crunching the data and send it to the Rainforest Connection app and analyzing it in real-time. When the activity has been detected, the forest rangers will now travel to the location and confront the loggers. Furthermore, the Rainforest Connection app is free to everyone and gets alerts about what's going on in the rainforest.

TechRadar added that the biggest issue about the Rainforest Connection is powering the guardian device, which the rainforest is densely-shaded and not friendly environment when it comes to the solar panel. The rainforest has a 90 percent shadow and 10 percent sunlight, though occasionally there are rays of sunlight is coming through but only last in a few minutes.

Since there are small rays of light that are called sun flecks, Topher White and his colleagues worked on each guardian device to put an array of several panels that can capture the sun flecks. Topher White also trying to generate more than 25 watts hours per day, as it needs more power in transmitting a data to the Rainforest Connection app.

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