An advanced monitoring camera for wildlife monitoring

The WAMCam service is a smart camera unit, connected by satellite communications and backed by a system control panel, to manage a collection of deployed devices. The rugged, battery-powered cameras are designed with AI onboard, capable of identifying different species of interest. The service aims at improving camera traps' capacities and at providing the tools to monitor live animal traps and to notify the researchers when an animal is trapped and of which species. It allows wildlife researchers and conservationists to perform population studies and monitoring in a more efficient way as through the up-to-date list of the traps’ status, researchers are freed from the need to check all traps every day and can now prioritise which traps to visit. The main users are researchers studying reclusive animals in dense jungle. The service uses satellite communications in order to send notifications and receive commands, which allows the researchers to place their traps wherever is most appropriate for them, regardless of terrain and cellular coverage.