https://www.smartparks.org/opencollar-io/
"
OpenCollar is a conservation collaboration to design, support
and deploy open-source tracking collar hardware and software
for environmental and wildlife monitoring projects
We want the development of wildlife monitoring collars to enter the world of
the cooperative, Internet-based community. By making the collars’ hardware and
software and other information available online, we aim to attract and inspire
talented students, researchers, and tech-savvy conservationists to develop
tracking systems that are more customisable and a better fit for use on
different animals.
Making existing technology available for anyone who wants it also means anyone
can inexpensively build and adjust collars, with for example a GPS, GSM or LoRa
module, for their own use cases.As the threshold for deploying collars
disappears, we hope that wildlife experts will collar more animals, generate
more data, create more actionable intelligence and share as much as possible to
benefit the conservation of our natural world.
Finally, bringing an audience with a passion for technology and wildlife
protection into the development of these technologies will reduce cost and
increase innovation overall."
Via
Future Crunch issue 193:
https://futurecrunch.com/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
