Evolution and sustainability of a wildlife monitoring sensor network
Authors
Dyo, VladimirYousef, Kharsim
Ellwood, Stephen A.
Macdonald, David W.
Markham, Andrew
Mascolo, Cecilia
Pásztor, Bence
Scellato, Salvatore
Trigoni, Niki
Wohlers, Ricklef
Issue Date
2010
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In this paper, we report the findings from a one year deployment of an automated wildlife monitoring system for analyzing the social co-location patterns of European badgers (Meles meles) residing in a dense woodland environment. We describe the stages of its evolution cycle, from implementation, deployment and testing, to various iterations of software optimization, followed by hardware enhancements, which in turn triggered the need for further software optimization. We report preliminary descriptive analyses of a subset of the data collected, demonstrating the significant potential our system has to generate new insights into badger behavior. The main lessons learned were: the need to factor in the maintenance costs while designing the system; to look carefully at software and hardware interactions; the importance of a rapid initial prototype deployment (this was key to our success); and the need for continuous interaction with domain scientists which allows for unexpected optimizations.Citation
Dyo, V.; Ellwood, S.; Macdonald, D.; Markham, A.; Mascolo, C.; Ṕasztor, B.; Scellato, S.; Trigoni, N.; Wohlers, R. and Yousef, K. (2010) 'Evolution and sustainability of a wildlife monitoring sensor network', Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems SenSys'10:127-140Publisher
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http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1869983.1869997Type
Conference papers, meetings and proceedingsLanguage
enISBN
9781450303446ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1145/1869983.1869997