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Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in combination with image sensors opens plethora of opportunities in the wildlife tracking. It provides a glimpse into previously unseen, remote and inaccessible world of some of the most endangered species on earth. tigerCENSE is such an attempt to put sensor network technology in conserving one of the rarest and most elusive big cat species. The node, triggered by the Passive Infrared (PIR) sensor, captures the image of tiger using a CMOS image sensor and stores it in an external memory chip. To avoid any disturbance to animal, the node uses an Infrared (IR) flash, instead of white flash, to illuminate the target at night. The stored images get transferred to the base station via radio transceiver. This is transferred to the database server through Internet links for analysis by wildlife researchers. A solar energy harvesting system for recharging node’s batteries is being added to avoid frequent human visit to change the batteries, making it highly non-intrusive system.
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Bagree, R., Jain, V.R., Kumar, A., Ranjan, P. (2010). TigerCENSE: Wireless Image Sensor Network to Monitor Tiger Movement. In: Marron, P.J., Voigt, T., Corke, P., Mottola, L. (eds) Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks. REALWSN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6511. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17520-6_2
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