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Real-time tracking of animal movements is enabling more effective and efficient wildlife monitoring for management, security, and research. As devices get smaller and prices drop, the possibilities for using biologging on a larger scale have grown, and so have the possibilities for increasing customisation to meet specific research needs. Likewise, real-time tracking of illegal wildlife trade, timber, and fish products as they move from source to consumer can shed light on trafficking routes and actors, as well as support enforcement, making tracking gear a powerful tool beyond the field.

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Virtual fencing / Kinetic energy harvesting / Holistic grazing

David Blažević

16 June 2022 at 07:12am

Hi everyone, Stephanie invited me to share some recent developments in Finalnd.I'm David and I'm a mechanical engineer from Rijeka, Croatia, working as a Marie Curie postdoc at...

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Lars Holst Hansen

17 July 2022 at 06:56am

Very cool indeed!

What is the intended fix rates on the raindeer? And will you be logging accelerometry as well?

With acceleromemtry, I am wondering: How will KEH affect the accelerometry itself?

In our muskoxen studies in Greenland we use the accelerometry to infer behaviour. 

Lars Holst Hansen

31 July 2022 at 05:15pm

I see, thanks!

One daily fix is quite limiting.

Do you have an idea how KEH might affect accelerometry?

Cheers,

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Elephant Collar

Daniel Kibe

11 June 2022 at 03:53pm

Elephant CollarsTechnology For Wildlife Africa Collar specsPosition acquisition: GPS for...

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Rob Appleby

16 June 2022 at 11:33pm

Great work @kangs and Technology For Wildlife Africa! Can I ask, what's the collar material made out of? 

Cheers,

Rob

Daniel Kibe

25 June 2022 at 03:26pm

its nylon rubber material

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Virtual Meetup Discussion: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology

Talia Speaker

7 June 2022 at 09:38pm

Hi everyone, Tomorrow, June 8, is our fourth and final WILDLABS Virtual Meetup in this...

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Akiba

11 June 2022 at 04:42pm

We've actually been looking into NFC to automatically provision field devices to set/read/store metadata. We're staring down the barrel of a large deployment and metadata is one of the issues that we think really needs automation. We're thinking of having a dedicated device to write and read the tags that would go on the devices as stickers and automagically sync the metadata with the database. An added bonus would be that most recently modern phones support NFC protocols like NTAG or MiFare Classic. That would mean that they could also be both read and written with the GPS coordinates, timestamp, etc as they're deployed in the field. It's still under discussion with the many other things that need to be implemented, though. I do think it's interesting that what we're seeing in a lot of conservation technology applications is not just a need for new technology but also the less exciting but more practical need for things that improve productivity like automating metadata management. 

David Savage

12 June 2022 at 01:08am

Using NFC makes a lot of sense too. I'm just on an older lower-end device that doesn't support it, which is why it didn't pop immediately to mind. Would be interesting to see what the adoption rate for NFC-capable phones is across countries though I'd imagine some phone manufacturer or something already has that data.

Akiba

12 June 2022 at 02:29am

A bit opposite of what you're looking for but according to this, the share of non-NFC enabled phones was 10% in 2020. They don't state their source unless you pay, but I suspect that's in terms of total phone models, not total phones in use. So it's highly likely that phones with no NFC in use is much higher than that. 

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Heart rate detected with accelerometers

Max Czapanskiy

1 June 2022 at 11:41pm

Hi everyone! I'm new to WildLabs, so I wanted to introduce myself by sharing some of my recent research. We demonstrated that (under the right conditions)...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

2 June 2022 at 08:08am

Hi Max, 

Well firstly, welcome! This is a great intro - I'm looking forward to having a poke around these links and reading more about your work. Sounds like you might well be interested in the topic of our meetup next week - we'll be talking about the future of biologging and biologging, the emerging tech and questions we should be paying attention to. I can't remember if I've seen your name pop up in our last few events, but hopefully  will see you there! More below if you're interested!

Steph 

 

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WILDLABS Virtual Meetups Season Four: Tracking Progress

WILDLABS Team

29 April 2022 at 09:57am

This season, we’re bringing together leading engineers, conservationists, and academics to explore the future of technology in movement ecology and ask where exactly investment is needed to catapult this field forward....

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WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Analysis in Movement Ecology

WILDLABS Team

26 April 2022 at 12:00am

Our second meetup in Season 4 explored the latest advancements and emerging developments in data analysis for movement ecology. On Wednesday, May 11, we heard short talks from leading experts Sara Beery, Somayeh Dodge, ...

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