The growing number of sensors and connected devices with LoraWAN technology enables anything from sea turtle monitoring to MCCI power consumption and optimization monitoring and a wide range of other applications. The core of LoraWAN open community established network The Things Network are gateways connected to the internet, these can range from industrial-grade and expensive units for example by Kerlink,...
Understanding the animal behavior, changes in the natural environment and effects of climate change on our ecosystems can be efficiently observed with the latest digital technologies and IoT devices. Over the past year we have been working in partnership with the Arribada Initiative to develop future-proof systems to empower researchers and conservation specialists to observe and measure effects in the...
In the last decade drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in general have proven to be one of the great technological developments with a range of applications from recreational hobby use to commercial applications such as monitoring, parcel delivery and filming. UAVs are very useful to capture high quality aerial data at affordable cost compared to alternative approaches, resulting in...
Green sea turtles are an endangered species and most vulnerable during the nesting period when they converge on sandy beaches. Working with the Arribada Initiative and Principe trust we have designed and in past December deployed a camera based tag to capture on video the turtle’s behaviour in space and time. Understanding their swimming, feeding habits and their interaction with...
Last month Blaž and Luka participated in the Angelshark acoustic tag attachment workshop hosted at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The aim of this workshop was to identify the best approach to externally tag Angelsharks with electronic tags, whilst ensuring minimal impact on animal behaviour and life history. The workshop brought together researchers from the Angel Shark Project (a...
On this blog we haven’t shared anything about a very promising initiative we’ve been involved in for a couple of months now. In the beginning of the year we’ve been approached by Tarek Loubani to help him develop and optimise a Pulse Oximeter. Tarek is a Palestinian-Canadian emergency medicine doctor who has decided to apply his medical skills to develop...
We’re announcing a new open hardware release, PiRA, a universal, modular IoT battery pack, developed as a response to the lack of IoT suitable battery pack or powerbank systems that can be easily and rapidly integrated into target applications, designed to reduce the development time and costs of bringing IoT devices from idea to functional prototypes creating a cost and...
A couple of months ago we were approached by Alasdair Davies, a founder of the Arribada Initiative, with whom we are already collaborating on the development of endangered sea turtle monitoring tags. As open hardware development and manufacturing experts we were invited to develop an Arboreal Monitoring Platform (AMP), which is now already running on an extremely important location of...
Do you still remember an affordable open source turtle tags, used to track and acquire spatial and behavioral data of the endangered green sea turtles, we helped developed last year? This project is still very active and our collaboration with conservationist Alasdair Davies and his Arribada Initiative has extended into 2017. Before moving to the next development cycle with a...
From the beginning of this year we have started, together with our fabrication company Fabrikor, several new partnerships with open hardware organizations within Shuttleworth Foundation and outside. One of the exciting projects we’ve been developing and manufacturing in collaboration with Safecast is a sensor device designed to operate off-grid and sense environmental parameters. We’re happy to announce that also with...
