The Internet of Animals
IOT for Ecology!
Applying IOT concepts to wildlife tracking and leveraging the International Space Station to collect data from transceivers on thousands of animals across the globe with a common database for storage.
New York Times Article, “With an Internet of Animals, Scientists Aim to Track and Save Wildlife”, June 9, 2020
“It’s a new era of discovery,” said Walter Jetz, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale, whose center is working with the project. “We will discover new migration paths, habitat requirements, things about species behavior that we didn’t even think about. That discovery will bring about all sorts of new questions.”
“With skin temperature, we can see in the ducks in China whether the next avian influenza is starting,” Dr. Wikelski said.
ICARUS, Global Monitoring with Animals