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Description
Europe's most endangered dormouse, bat and squirrel species are in precipitous decline with several expected to become extinct in Europe within 2 to 3 decades if action is not taken now.
WildCamera is an open source collaboration of Europe's leading semiconductor, Edge AI and conservation experts developing a new wildlife camera and field ecology system which will be vastly more flexible, robust and powerful than existing commercial wildlife cameras.
The system enables a choice of general purpose and special purpose MIPI CSI-2 camera modules, hardware encoding and neural network inference on live video using only 4 Watts of power. Taking Linux into suspend-to-RAM and rapidly waking when required minimizes power consumption and allows the system to be independent and self-sufficient in the field.
Originally developed on NXP's i.MX 8M Plus, the system is also being prepared to run on NXP's pre-production i.MX 95.
Integration of ST's new range of image sensors allows high image quality and flexibility at low bandwidth.
By applying the best technology available, the WildCamera team are delivering a system which is powerful, flexible and sustainable.
More about our wider conservation work:
https://new-homes-for-old-friends.cairnwater.com/
and about WildCamera:
https://github.com/William-Robert-Robertson/WildCamera
Speaker Bio
Honored by Parliamentary Motions in the Scottish and London parliaments, Will is an internationally recognized engineer and climbing arborist in practice and research.
Together with Michael Bauer he co-founded the reference dictionary of Scottish Gaelic www.faclair.com . With Goedele Verbeylen he developed a new generation of minimally invasive precision chainsaw carving techniques which create nest holes for our most endangered species.
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