Research Article

Preliminary Application of a Low-cost Smart Collar Developed for Wild Animal Tracking

Volume: 8 Number: 1 June 30, 2022
Ahmet Furkan İmamoğlu *, İnanç Taş
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Preliminary Application of a Low-cost Smart Collar Developed for Wild Animal Tracking

Abstract

Global Positioning System (GPS) technology has been used in many different fields for many years. In recent years, GPS technologies have started to be preferred along with telemetry method in the monitoring and tracking of wild animal. This technology has been widely used especially in developing collars for wild animal tracking. However, due to the high cost of such devices and limited user intervention, they are not commonly used by practitioners or researchers with limited budget. Today, many hardware-based platforms have been developed with the developing technology. The Arduino platform, one of the prominent ones with its technical features, has great advantages of having different sensors and hardware work on single device. Besides, it is possible to produce cost-effective devices using this platform. Within the scope of this study, an Arduino-based wild animal tracking device (FiT-SMART Collar 2.0) with GPS support and remote data transfer via GSM was produced. The produced device was preliminary tested with a vehicle in the city traffic of Bursa, Türkiye. According to the results, the accuracy of the tracking data provided by smart collar was within the acceptable range of 2-3 m. Besides, instant tracking data has been successfully received in the system application using the GSM data transfer system attached on the platform.

Keywords

Smart Collar , Arduino , Wild animal tracking , GSM , GPS.

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Engineering

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Publication Date

June 30, 2022

Submission Date

June 16, 2022

Acceptance Date

June 25, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 8 Number: 1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.33904/ejfe.1131931

IZ

https://izlik.org/JA62NW59UB

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APA
İmamoğlu, A. F., & Taş, İ. (2022). Preliminary Application of a Low-cost Smart Collar Developed for Wild Animal Tracking. European Journal of Forest Engineering, 8(1), 35-39. https://doi.org/10.33904/ejfe.1131931

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