ISR-UMD Wireless Animal Borne Networks
Learn about an "animal-borne wireless sensor network" that takes the CritterCam concept to the next level. Researchers at the University of Maryland, the National Geographic Society and Princeton University are improving devices animals can wear to capture video, sound, geo-location data, and other information. The devices are being refined to conserve battery power so they can record for longer periods of time and to trigger when animals encounter each other at close range. Someday these networked sensors could help conserve endangered species by collecting detailed information on animals' ranges, daily lives, and even "who is preying upon whom." The research is sponsored by National Science Foundation grant, 1135726, "Remote Imaging of Community Ecology via Animal-borne Wireless Networks."
