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News: India’s first automated bat monitoring and detection system BatEchoMon launched marking a new chapter in bat research.
About Bat Echolocation Monitoring (BatEchoMon)
- It is India’s first automated bat monitoring system.
- It is an autonomous system capable of detecting and analysing bat calls in real-time.
- It is programmed to activate automatically at sunset, when bats begin flying and continuously listens and analyses audio.
Components and working
- Aside from a recording device, it includes components that can record, store, process, and analyse species-wise bat activity on the fly.
- An Audiomoth, a popular low-cost ultrasonic detector, has been configured to work as an ultrasonic microphone.
- Other auxiliary components in the device include a solar panel plus battery and a WiFi communication unit for power supply and data transmission, respectively.
- In the absence of the sun, the device can last for up to eight days.
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