Internet on animals: Wi‐Fi‐enabled devices provide a solution for big data transmission in biologging

Wild, Timm A.; Wikelski, Martin; Tyndel, Stephen A.; Alarcón‐Nieto, Gustavo; Klump, Barbara Christina; Aplin, Lucy M.; Meboldt, Mirko; Williams, Hannah J.

doi:10.1111/2041-210x.13798

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“…This storage limitation needs to be considered when choosing batteries with higher capacities (i.e., a TickTag attached to a 150 mAh battery and configured to record data at 1 Hz fills the memory before the battery is empty). The maximum recording frequency of the TickTag is 1 Hz and the current design does not incorporate wireless transmission of data (such as GSM, LoRa, Sigfox, Bluetooth Low Energy, or WiFi [ 56 – 60 ]). Such a communication function could be implemented in the future but would increase electronics mass and power consumption.…”

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Micro-sized open-source and low-cost GPS loggers below 1 g minimise the impact on animals while collecting thousands of fixes

Wild¹,

Koblitz²,

Dechmann³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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GPS-enabled loggers have been proven as valuable tools for monitoring and understanding animal movement, behaviour and ecology. While the importance of recording accurate location estimates is well established, deployment on many, especially small species, has been limited by logger mass and cost. We developed an open-source and low-cost 0.65 g GPS logger with a simple smartphone-compatible user interface, that can record more than 10,000 GPS fixes on a single 30 mAh battery charge (resulting mass including battery: 1.3 g). This low-budget ‘TickTag’ (currently 32 USD) allows scientists to scale-up studies while becoming a ‘wearable’ for larger animals and simultaneously enabling high-definition studies on small animals. Tests on two different species (domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris and greater mouse-eared bats, Myotis myotis) showed that our combination of optimised hardware design and software-based recording strategies increases the number of achievable GPS fixes per g device mass compared to existing micro-sized solutions. We propose that due to the open-source access, as well as low cost and mass, the TickTag fills a technological gap in wildlife ecology and will open up new possibilities for wildlife research and conservation.

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Micro-sized open-source and low-cost GPS loggers below 1 g minimise the impact on animals while collecting thousands of fixes

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Koblitz²,

Dechmann³

et al. 2022

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“…We are planning to continue our study to increase the sample size, which will allow us to better understand the migration of the species and thus draw up more detailed conservation implications in the future. Besides that, the latest fine-scale big data collection methodology, which is based on Wi-Fi technology, is also ready to be used (Wild et al 2022), and it might further expand the possibilities of studying the behavioural background of Woodcock migration in the future.…”

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Spring migration phenology of Eurasian Woodcocks tagged with GPS-Argos transmitters in Central Europe

Schally

Csányi

Palatitz³

2022

Ornis Fenn

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Eurasian Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) plays a special role in the cultural heritage of most nations in Europe. In the last decade, ringing revealed the main migratory patterns of some well studied and intensively harvested Woodcock populations wintering in Western and Southern Europe. The same study sites and populations were in focus when the recently revolutionized satellite tracking technologies allowed the study of individual migrations. In contribution to these efforts, we present here the pre-nuptial migration data of Woodcocks captured and tagged with GPS-Argos transmitters in Central Europe, in 2020. Woodcocks migrated from the tagging site in Hungary to Ukraine, European Russia and Central Siberia by an average of 2,678 km (range 677–5,002 km). The duration of the migration ranged between 1–52 days, the overall migration speed was 382 km/day, the absolute maximum distance covered in a day was 866 km. The individual number of stopovers varied during the migration from 0 to 5. The average time spent at each stopover site was 5.6 days. Within the stopover sites, the daily displacements ranged between 11–3,329 m. The Carpathian Basin may be more important in the wintering of Woodcocks than previously assumed, as tagged birds stayed significantly longer compared to any later en route migratory stopover. In accordance with the results of previous DNA analysis, identified breeding grounds of tagged individuals represented a large part of the distribution area.

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“…The broad concept of the Internet of Animals, and more specifically the ICARUS project by Matin Wikelski, resort to the use of bio-logging technological devices in order to capture and sense physiological information, geolocation, topographical information and acoustic tracking. Through this information are generated maps patterns of migratory movements, maps that make visible the reasons why certain species behave as they do, and maps that aggregate biologically relevant data and try to understand the relations of causality and interactivity between species and the environments they occupy (Curry 2018;Wild et al 2021).…”

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On the Possibility of a Non-Anthropocentric Visuality

Mateus¹

2022

xCoAx 2022

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This paper aims to understand if it is possible to speak of a non-anthropocentric visuality. The progressive and continuous increase of information production at a global level has led us to witness a specific set of visual information that, we argue, can be considered to be decentered from anthropocentric ocular optics. If we are in fact able to speak of a non-anthropocentric visuality, as this paper strongly suggests, this means that such concept is distinct from a non-human vi- suality, and that this scopic regime allows for other forms of sensing that extend beyond human sensory capacities. If we subscribe to this perspective, import- ant consequences arise, specifically concerning the relation between visual in- formation and governance. This analysis reinforces the need to further examine and carefully look at visual information produced outside of ocularcentrism, and its implications for the knowledge that supports itself on it.

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Internet on animals: Wi‐Fi‐enabled devices provide a solution for big data transmission in biologging

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creat ive Commo ns Attri butio n-NonCo mmerc ial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

Cited by 29 publications

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Micro-sized open-source and low-cost GPS loggers below 1 g minimise the impact on animals while collecting thousands of fixes

Micro-sized open-source and low-cost GPS loggers below 1 g minimise the impact on animals while collecting thousands of fixes

Spring migration phenology of Eurasian Woodcocks tagged with GPS-Argos transmitters in Central Europe

On the Possibility of a Non-Anthropocentric Visuality

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