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Want to talk about sensors that don't quite fit into any of our tech-specific groups? This is the place to post! From temperature and humidity to airflow and pressure sensors, there are many environmental sensing tools that can add valuable data to core conservation monitoring technologies. With the increasing availability of low-cost, open-source options, we've seen growing interest in integrating these kinds of low bandwidth sensors into existing tools. What kinds of sensors are you working with?

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Sensors already equip a range of tools to enhance monitoring capacity for conservation. Some of the higher bandwidth technologies, like camera traps and acoustic monitoring systems, have been essential elements of the conservation toolkit for decades, and thus have enough users that we've created dedicated WILDLABS groups to address them. But a whole range of lower bandwidth sensors beyond these core technologies are being increasingly integrated into conservation monitoring systems, and offer rich new insights into the wildlife and ecosystems we're all working to protect. As with many technologies, cost and access have historically been challenges to the adoption of new sensors, but with low-cost and open-source solutions on the rise, we're excited to see what the future of this space holds.

Getting Started with Sensors:

Watch Shah Selbe's Tech Tutors episode on scaling FieldKit, an open-source conservation sensor toolbox, from a project to a successful conservation tech product.
Check out our Virtual Meetup about Low-Cost, Open-Source Solutions in conservation tech, including a talk by Alasdair Davies on the Arribada Initiative's work with thermal sensors in early warning systems.
For a more in-depth introduction, watch the first video in our datalogger mini-series: Freaklabs: How do I get started with Arduino?

In this group, you'll meet others who are using and innovating diverse sensors in their work, discuss ways to make sensors more effective & accessible for conservationists, learn about what sensors are already helping us accomplish in the field, and have the opportunity to ask and answer questions. Join this group to get started!

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@Maureen

Tech 4 Conservation

President, Tech 4 Conservation

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@donovantye
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Savanna Ecologist, Field Station Director and Head of Conservation Tech Projects for Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS).

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@XeriusTracking

Xerius Tracking

Concerned by wildlife protection and advanced technologies

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@holmbergius

Wild Me

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@AdventureScientists

Adventure Scientists is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Bozeman, MT that equips scientists and researchers with high-quality data collected from the outdoors that are crucial to addressing environmental challenges around the world.

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@DanielHugelmann
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Hi, I'm the co-founder of OceanLabs Seychelles. We design and build environmental and marine remote sensing devices for conservation NGOs. As an engineer and avid diver, with a love for the environment, connecting conservation and technology was the natural thing to do!

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@Cedric

I am both head of the Innovation department and a biodiversity consultant at the Biotope consultancy. Originally a botanist and GIS expert, I specialise in the management of innovation projects, in particular software and technological products dedicated to biodiversity.

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@chmod000
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I build sensing and perceiving hardware that is designed to address issues that matter to me. That ranges from assistive technologies, to conservation ecology, and connecting individuals with place and each other.

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@Pekkaino

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

I study movement, behaviour and/or physiology using combine various sensors and tracking techniques. My focus is marine predators. However, my interest extends through the entire food web in all types of environment.

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@Nandini

Technology for Wildlife Foundation

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@Eric24
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Georgia Institute of Technology

PhD student in Computer Science specializing in sensing and wireless communications for social good

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@Kimaru

I am a budding engineer doing Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering and I am passionate about innovation and technology and how I can use it to make an impact in society.

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Scale with data logger	Hi, Can you clarify what you mean by "does not work"? If I were to guess, I'd say the firmware temperature compensation tables for the load cell tops out at 40...		Sensors	3 years 6 months ago
ECG/heart rate & body temperature sensor	Do you mean the sensor itself (that you're going make a tag out of) or a datalogger that records heart rate (sensor incoporated into a tag already)? Vectronic make some good...		Sensors	3 years 9 months ago
(trial) Habitat use within enclosure	Dear Wildlabs community, Not a 100 'wild' issue but this is a 'wild' collaboration we have. I'm collaborating...		Sensors	3 years 9 months ago
Proximity detection in koalas	Hi @LuciKirkpatrick Aha! A great strategy. I thought it might have been a 'wake on radio' solution, but the overlapping wait time is a really nice solution. Again...	+8	Sensors	3 years 9 months ago
Tech Tutors: How do I turn a conservation tech project into a product?	Hi Wildlabbers! Tomorrow Shah Selbe will be our Tech Tutor and guide us through how to turn an innovative conservation tech...		Open Source Solutions, Sensors	3 years 9 months ago
Feedback welcome	Hi Adam, My name is Nicole, I work at Frontier Labs - we also make bioacoustic recorders (BARs) and are based in Brisbane, Australia. Yay for Australian tech! We have been...		Sensors	3 years 10 months ago
Tech Tutors: How do I use animal-borne imaging technology in marine and terrestrial environments?	Would certainly be cool to see a tutorial on this! Looking forward to that!		Marine Conservation, Sensors	3 years 11 months ago
(Arctic Fox) trap alarm based on LoRa Adafruit	Almost done with the trap alarms. I added an additional buzzer (with internal circuitry) to get more noise. The added benefit is that the slightly different tunes creates...		Sensors	4 years 2 months ago
Arm technologies: What do you use?	Hi Barry, I am tinkering with similar edge devices and aspirations! I recently acquired the Jetson Nano to start testing some aspects of the BearID Project software pipeline....		Connectivity, Sensors	4 years 5 months ago
Method for mapping & finding nest boxes	Thanks for the paper Harold, this looks like a possibility. Especially if there's a way to make bespoke detectors	+22	Sensors	4 years 5 months ago
Looking for old/dummy Vectronics collars	Hi everyone, I'm building some small audio attachments to pop onto Vectronics collars. Does anyone have dummy or...		Sensors	4 years 5 months ago
Water intermittency data logger	Really interesting chat. I was looking at this "eTape" to measure inundation on marine turtle nests. https://www.adafruit.com/product/463 Will give you water presence...	+10	Sensors	4 years 9 months ago

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