Hi Stephanie, We are manufacturing an innovative AI-powered trail camera called DeterCam, and we are based in the UK: https://innovfactory.com/ 

The camera is equipped with our Edge AI technology, which allows it to detect only animals and send media (pictures/videos) only when an animal is present in front of the camera. This significantly reduces false triggers and power consumption.

Our Edge AI architecture allows the camera to operate for up to 1 year on battery power (assuming approximately 5 triggers per day). The system also allows full remote control from our cloud platform, including:

• Video duration
• PIR trigger settings
• Detection configuration
• Camera management and updates

The camera is equipped with a 4G module, allowing all media and detections to be uploaded directly to the cloud, meaning there is no need to physically collect data from the SD card.

We supply the complete solution, including manufacturing the battery packs ourselves. The total internal battery capacity can reach up to 32,500 mAh. To date, we have sold over 10,000 units worldwide.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

You can email me if you have any further questions: [email protected] 

Hi, are you looking to import these? Do you have any import tax considerations? This could impact which models you buy. I have been using Acorn models, very reliable and provide photo and 4K video with sound options.

Best wishes

Susan

That's a great idea @MandyEyrich ! Similar to your idea, I wrote up an article with geospatial highlights from ICTC 2026: https://wildlabs.net/en/article/wildlabs-geospatial-group-ictc-2026. 

Is the Human-Wildlife Coexistence article available yet? Would love to read it and share it with colleagues at Fauna & Flora.

I just saw this Mare. I hate to be negative but sometimes bad ideas are contrary to conservation and need to be put to rest. Myself and my company are one of the leaders in human-bear conflict (including being a founding member of the Human-Bear Conflict Workshop) and you can check any North American bear practicioner to confirm this.

This is a bad idea and it won't work. You need to do a more thorough reivew of the conflict literature before investigating the specifics of sound. Your method is that of a deterrent - deterrents only work when attractants are managed. Further, the specific deterrent effect you are proposing is much too mild. We occasionally can get temporary impacts from heavy duty pain stimulus like rubber bullets. Audio deterrent are a mild effect and only work in specific contexts for very short durations.

The only place in the world a comprehensive aversive conditioning program has worked entirely is Kananaskis Country in Canada - and that is because ALL non-natural bear attractants have been completely removed. 

Within the context of Carpathian conflict, it is driven entirely by garbage access and roadside feeding, with backyard attractants only mattering for conservation when the first two have been dealt with. Obviously, this idea would only work on a fixed attractants - ie garbage dumps. I've seen female sows with cubs brave 20 adult male bears on garbage dumps (all of which will happily kill the cubs) to get a chance at feeding on garbage. A garbage feed bear can get more food in minutes than it could harvest on wild sources and they will brave death to do it. No deterrent can work without attractant management.

Hats off to your team for this absolute game-changing technology! 

We rescue stray and wild animals in Taiwan, and the bulk of our work is saving animals maimed by wire snares and gin traps. We've become better at finding the devices, but still not good at all. There's simply too much difficult terrain to cover and we only have eyeballs and hiking sticks to find them. We know roughly where they are because the maimed stray dogs will eventually find their way onto a road and be reported to us. Then we close one of them, set up a trail camera, get the evidence of the poacher in the act of re-setting it, and get him prosecuted and shut down. But we need to be able to scale this greatly.

I've been using a thermal-imaging drone to locate stricken animals and am now considering buying another drone more suited to finding traps and snares. Some newer drones are able to navigate through forest without crashing into thin branches, so I've been looking into equipping one with LiDAR to see if that can detect the devices. But then I came across your YouTube channel and then this post about using airborne synthetic radar, and I'm incredibly excited to see where you might take this incredible technology.

How can we get our hands on the SAR you're using? It's 3 kg, right? I'm wondering if I could fit it to a suitable drone. If it works above forest canopy to detect traps and snares on the forest floor, then I can use a load-carrying drone instead of a light obstacle-avoidance drone.

If you made the SAR yourselves, then maybe think about crowdfunding for your project. I'd happily pledge funds if it meant I could get my hands on the kind of equipment you're using.

I can't tell you how happy I am thinking about all the animals' lives you'll save with this. Don't just remove the snares—gather evidence and put the poachers out of business too!

Hi @DaveGaynor and team. I am really keen to pursue this with some practical testing in Kenyan conservancies. What is the status of this effort, and could we meet to discuss how to take it forward as part of the Global Conservation Tech and Drone Forum in Nairobi, 2-6 March. I am chair of the Society for Conservation Biology Drone and Data Working Group and would like to discuss this at our inaugural meeting on 20th January.  https://wildlabs.net/discussion/scb-drones-and-data-working-group-society-conservation-biology 

Hi team, Can you please provide an update on where this effort sits now? The original post from January 2024 described three trials of airborne synthetic aperture radar for detecting snares and gin traps with foliage-penetrating radar scanning at 120 m AGL and generating geolocated alerts back into EarthRanger with identity and confidence metrics.

I want to add this as one of our competitions at the Global Conservation Tech & Drone Forum www.GCTDF.org in Kenya in early March, and include it in the new SCB Drones and Data WG as a discussion: https://wildlabs.net/discussion/scb-drones-and-data-working-group-society-conservation-biology 
 

This would build on the recent launch of a hands-on Tech Innovation Challenge around of the ADS-B proximity alert ,  as a safety layer in real conservation field operations where pilots are often multitasking. Please let me know the current status, data availability, key contacts, and what next steps might look like if this is to be integrated into the Forum and the Working Group agenda.

Thanks.

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