TY - JOUR
T1 - Rapid prototyping for wildlife and ecological monitoring
AU - Huang, Jyh How
AU - Chen, Ying Yu
AU - Huang, Yu Te
AU - Lin, Po Yen
AU - Chen, Yi Chao
AU - Lin, Yi Fu
AU - Yen, Shih Ching
AU - Huang, Polly
AU - Chen, Ling Jyh
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received September 15, 2009; accepted September 15, 2009. First published May 03, 2010; current version published June 03, 2010. This work was supported by the National Science Council of Taiwan under Grants NSC 97-2628-E-001-007-MY3 and NSC 98-2218-E-002-040. J.-H. Huang, P.-Y. Lin, and P. Huang are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan. Y.-Y. Chen, Y.-T. Huang, Y.-C. Chen, Y.-F. Lin, and L.-J. Chen are with the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan (e-mail: [email protected]). S.-C. Yen is with the Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11677, Taiwan. Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSYST.2010.2047294
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - Wildlife tracking and ecological monitoring are important for scientific monitoring, wildlife rehabilitation, disease control, and sustainable ecological development. Yet technologies for both of them are expensive and not scalable. Also it is important to tune the monitoring system parameters for different species to adapt their behavior and gain the best result of monitoring. In this paper, we propose using wireless sensor networks to build both short term and long term wildlife and ecological monitoring systems. For the short term system, everything used is off-the-shelf and can be easily purchased from the market. We suggest that before establishing a large scale wildlife/ecological monitoring network, it is worthwhile to first spend a short period of time constructing a rapid prototype of the targeted network. Through verifying the correctness of the prototype network, ecologists can find potential problems, avoid total system failure, and use the best-tuned parameters for the long-term monitoring network.
AB - Wildlife tracking and ecological monitoring are important for scientific monitoring, wildlife rehabilitation, disease control, and sustainable ecological development. Yet technologies for both of them are expensive and not scalable. Also it is important to tune the monitoring system parameters for different species to adapt their behavior and gain the best result of monitoring. In this paper, we propose using wireless sensor networks to build both short term and long term wildlife and ecological monitoring systems. For the short term system, everything used is off-the-shelf and can be easily purchased from the market. We suggest that before establishing a large scale wildlife/ecological monitoring network, it is worthwhile to first spend a short period of time constructing a rapid prototype of the targeted network. Through verifying the correctness of the prototype network, ecologists can find potential problems, avoid total system failure, and use the best-tuned parameters for the long-term monitoring network.
KW - GPS
KW - Opportunistic networks
KW - Wildlife tracking
KW - Wireless sensor networks
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U2 - 10.1109/JSYST.2010.2047294
DO - 10.1109/JSYST.2010.2047294
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77953568358
SN - 1932-8184
VL - 4
SP - 198
EP - 209
JO - IEEE Systems Journal
JF - IEEE Systems Journal
IS - 2
M1 - 5458022
ER -