Environmental Monitoring: VoiceLink
VoiceLink is a system for autonomous nightingale song recording. It incorporated a number of cheap netbook computers spanning a wireless mesh network. Each netbook was capable of using few wired microphones for simultaneous nightingale song recording. The system was extended with a small embedded device based on an ARM microcontroller that could be easily placed very close to a nightingale nest. Management software supported reconfiguration of recording schedules and remote download of nightingale song records.
VoiceLink was deployed in 2010.
Impressions from the first VoiceLink deployment
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Relevant Publications
- Marco Ziegert. Autonomous Wildlife Monitoring: Design, implementation, and evaluation of an embedded platform for nightingale song recording. Diploma thesis, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin. [Text as PDF]
- Frank Beier. Autonomous Wildlife Monitoring: Design, implementation, and evaluation of a wireless solution for nightingale song recording. Diploma thesis, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin. [Text as PDF] [Slides as PDF]
Contact: Tomasz Naumowicz or Marco Ziegert