ArticleAnimal biotelemetry2023
A multi-species evaluation of digital wildlife monitoring using the Sigfox IoT network.
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- Determining Activity Patterns and Home Range of Wild Bats Using a Proximity Biologging System Based on the Internet of Things (IoT).Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Resource-efficient data transmission for WiFi-capable bio-loggers based on machine learning.PloS one · 2026Article
- Towards a minimum reporting standard to promote animal welfare and data quality in biologging research.Animal biotelemetry · 2026Article
- From biologging to conservation: Tracking individual performance in changing environments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Conservation-focused mapping of avian migratory routes using a pan-European automated telemetry network.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- A Review of Miniature Radio Transmitters for Wildlife Tracking.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Time synchronisation for millisecond-precision on bio-loggers.Movement ecology · 2024Article
- Accelerometer-based detection of African swine fever infection in wild boar.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Data Acquisition Filtering Focused on Optimizing Transmission in a LoRaWAN Network Applied to the WSN Forest Monitoring System.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A novel kinetic energy harvesting system for lifetime deployments of wildlife trackers.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Bio-telemetry from small tags attached to animals is one of the principal methods for studying the ecology and behaviour of wildlife. The field has constantly evolved over the last 80 years as technological improvement enabled a diversity of sensors to be integrated into the tags (e.g., GPS, accelerometers, etc.). However, retrieving data from tags on free-ranging animals remains a challenge since satellite and GSM networks are relatively expensive and or power hungry. Recently a new class of low-power communication networks have been developed and deployed worldwide to connect the internet of things (IoT). Here, we evaluated one of these, the Sigfox IoT network, for the potential as a real-time multi-sensor data retrieval and tag commanding system for studying fauna across a diversity of species and ecosystems. We tracked 312 individuals across 30 species (from 25 g bats to 3 t elephants) with seven different device concepts, resulting in more than 177,742 successful transmissions. We found a maximum line of sight communication distance of 280 km (on a flying cape vulture [
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