DocumentCode :
3705874
Title :
Tracking and monitoring horses in the wild using wireless sensor networks
Author :
Ion Emilian Radoi;Janek Mann;D K Arvind
Author_Institution :
Centre for Speckled Computing, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
fYear :
2015
Firstpage :
732
Lastpage :
739
Abstract :
The Retuerta is one of the oldest breed of horses in Europe, which roams wild in the Donana National Park, Andalusia, Spain. Thirty-two of these horses were marked with wireless sensors to gather spatio-temporal data on their behaviour over a period of several months. This paper describes our experiences of tracking and monitoring these wild horses attached with body-worn sensors and operating in a harsh and challenging environment. Analysis of this data for the first two months has revealed rare insights into the horses´ social behaviour, such as the group dynamics (group sizes and memberships), dispersal and home ranges which are of interest to both animal ethologists and practitioners managing the ecology of their wild habitats. The paper introduces the Virtual Beacon - Time Division Multiple Access (VB-TDMA) protocol for orchestrating the data collection, and describes the choices that were made for addressing the many technical challenges for an extended deployment, such as in the design of the sensor platform, wireless data collection and battery lifetime issues. Our experiences point to the virtue of simplicity in design of wireless sensor networks to support core functionalities for achieving good average case performances.
Keywords :
"Sensors","Global Positioning System","Wireless sensor networks","Monitoring","Horses","Batteries"
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/WiMOB.2015.7348035
Filename :
7348035
Link To Document :
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