The Loch Leven Living Lab aims to use digital technology and environmental monitoring to enhance the visitor experience and engagement with the Loch Leven ecosystem while supporting sustainable tourism growth. This would be done through developing interactive education content, augmented reality experiences, and open data science. Over 150 years of data on the site's ecology and 50 years of structured research could be organized and published on an open platform. Doing so may attract stakeholders interested in monitoring air/water quality, emissions, and more. Initial plans involve building a fiber and wireless broadband network to support these goals.

1. Loch Leven Living Lab
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2. Loch Leven Living Lab

4. Loch Leven
• Site of Special Scientific Interest.
• EU Special Protection Area.
• Exceptionally important ecosystem and
migration site (120,000 geese).
• Historic and Famous (Queens and Trout).
• c.250k tourism and leisure visitors p/a.

5. What could be done?
• Engaging interactive content for the RSPB website and
social media channels. Developing increased membership
levels through digital engagement.
• Delivering innovative digital education to schools all
over Scotland, and anywhere on the planet.
• Using digital technology (e.g. Augmented Reality) to add
to the visitor experience.
• Citizen, academic and commercial science (Open Data).
• All of which could/should result in sustainable and
sensitive growth in physical visitors to Loch Leven.

6. Environmental Monitoring
Air Quality
Water Quality
Traffic
Emmissions
Light and Noise Pollution
Population Ecology

7. Data Challenge
• Data sets spanning >150 years.
• 50 years of structured science (CEH).
• Future of the research uncertain.
• Some data is open, but:
• Data JTBD: aggregation, organisation,
cleansing, publishing on open
platform.

8. Economic Argument
Tourism | Education | Environmental Monitoring
Potential Stakeholders
Westfield – carbon intensive plans
just one mile from the Loch Leven
Site of Special Scientific Interest /
EU Special Protected Area.
Further Context
Interest from: Edinburgh, St
Andrews and Strathclyde
Universities; National Grid,
IBM, Microsoft and Cisco.

9. What ARE we doing? + Ask!

10. 1.65km
5km
Initial TV White Space Plan

11. What ARE we doing? + Ask!
• We have already built a full fibre network
to the edge of Loch Leven via an Openreach
Community Fibre Partnership.
• With PKC support we are building a
superfast wireless broadband and IoT
network (5Ghz/TVWS/LoRaWAN).
• We are looking to secure funding to
develop a robust economic argument
(environmental monitoring, education,
tourism).
• Advice, contacts, funding, action!