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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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I'm a population and community ecologist studying the effects of global change on insect populations.

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Researcher interested in the conservation of endemic anurans from arid High Andes. Focused on behavior, ecology, physiology, and reproduction studies. Education for conservation.

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@sheldon.blackshire

Firmware/Electronics Engineer with 10+ years of experience building telemetry devices for wildlife conservation. I'm an avid birdwatcher and enjoy wildlife photography. CTO and Senior Engineer at Cellular Tracking Technologies.

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I am a shark researcher interested in using technology to improve the way we study sharks.

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On the way to Bridge technology and Nature.

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GPS collars for domestic dogs	Thank you! I will follow up by email.	+8	Animal Movement, Conservation Dogs, East Africa Community, Geospatial, Sensors, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT)	5 months ago
LiDAR for Wildlife Size Measurement	Thanks Jack, that's an interesting repo.		Sensors	5 months 1 week ago
GPS Tracker For Wildlife	Sure, Akio! Happy to answer!1. Yes, something like that. The few existing i guess applied already for GPS collar (literally collar) that usually for big cats and some other big...		Sensors, Animal Movement, Open Source Solutions	5 months 2 weeks ago
How much does it cost to incorporate Machine Learning into your drone GIS analysis process?	How much does it cost to incorporate machine learning into your conservation drone geospatial analysis? How does it speed up your workflow...		Conservation Tech Training and Education, Drones, Geospatial, Open Source Solutions, Sensors, Software Development	5 months 2 weeks ago
Custom underwater case for spectrometer	Thanks so much for all the advice!! This seems very achievable. We don't mind having the fibre optic fixed in place as we planned to have a shorter one specifically for this...		Sensors, Marine Conservation	5 months 2 weeks ago
The 100KB Challenge!	Hi Dan, Not right now but I can envision many uses. A key problem in RS is data streams for validation and training of ML models, its really not yet a solved problem. Any...		Emerging Tech, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Camera Traps, Connectivity, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Geospatial, Sensors	5 months 3 weeks ago
Using LoRa for a sensor network: recommendations	@Eric24 The use case is as I wrote to Patrick: "a parent unit in the centre of a conservation area which is to recieve one way packets from child sensor units spread around the...		Sensors	6 months ago
Low-power acoustics systems	Hi Lucille,Thank you for your reply! We’d be really interested in learning more about your developments. We’ll contact you soon to arrange a discussion.Thank you.Best regards,...		Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Sensors	6 months 1 week ago
Thesis Collaboration	Hi Simon,We (Reneco International Wildlife Consultants) have an ongoing collaboration with a local University (Abu Dhabi, UAE) for developing AI tools (cameratrap/drone...		Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Connectivity, Drones, Early Career, eDNA & Genomics, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors	7 months ago
Video evidence for the evaluation of behavioral state predictions	No, not yet. The player we attached does support slower/faster replay up to a certain precision, but I'm not sure that this will be sufficiently precise for the kind of offsets we...		Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools, Sensors, Software Development	7 months 4 weeks ago
Sensors and data sharing for small autonomous boat (Brave Puffin)	Hello everyone,I built Brave Puffin (https://bravepuffin.com) - a small, autonomous, long range, solar powered boat. It is designed to...		Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Marine Conservation, Sensors	7 months 4 weeks ago
Birdweather Puc use as a passive sensor	Hello WalterThanks for your input. I have achieved better results with the puc when hooking it up to a powerbank. Have got them set up to "recording only", and GPS to low power...		Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Citizen Science, Sensors	7 months 4 weeks ago

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