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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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On the way to Bridge technology and Nature.

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Proximity Data - Analysis methods	Dear all, I am currently developing a method to extract subgroups from dynamic network data. My current use case is data collected on...	Sensors	5 years 5 months ago
sound loop device	I need to play a loop of sound to desensitize animals for project. The system needs to be solar powered 24/7 for 2-3 months. I have solar...	Sensors	5 years 5 months ago
Open source, low cost proximity loggers	Hi all, we have been developing low cost open source proximity loggers for small animals (minimum logger weight is currently 1g) and we are...	Sensors	5 years 8 months ago
FLIR Conservation Discount Program	Hi Alasdair- Currently the Lepton is not on the list. If you would, please fill out the form on this webpage and request the Lepton be added - I will also bring it...	Sensors	6 years 2 months ago
Environmental Management and the Raspberry Pi	Hi all, I am currently working on my grad film project, and I'm looking for UK environmental projects using the Raspberry...	Sensors	6 years 2 months ago
How IoT is being used for Australian agriculture	Although this article focuses on agriculture in Australia, a lot of the IoT principles that are being used can also possibly be used for...	Sensors	6 years 3 months ago
Suggestions or Preferences for content for this forum?	Sounds great!	Sensors	6 years 4 months ago
Starting an Open Source DataLogger Project	We've also put together a variation on the wireless datalogger. We've found it extremely useful for us in other projects, especially in developing countries without...	Sensors	6 years 4 months ago
OpenEars is a fact!	FYI: we included instructions in English: https://github.com/SensingClues/OpenEars	Sensors	6 years 4 months ago
camera trap sensor zones - how much is hardware and how much firmware	FYI, the open source camera trap part of this thread has moved here: https://www.wildlabs.net/community/thread/694	Sensors	6 years 4 months ago
Great introduction to IoT	The talk is really interesting and I agree that it's important to think about the bigger issues of the world and then use technology as just one of the tools to try and tackle...	Sensors	6 years 5 months ago
IoT Roots are Actually in Habitat Monitoring	Hi everyone. Excited to be part of this group especially since IoT can pretty much trace it's roots to wildlife monitoring. I've...	Sensors	6 years 5 months ago

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