Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
SpringerLink
Log in

The Big Night Out: Experiences from Tracking Flying Foxes with Delay-Tolerant Wireless Networking

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 281))

Abstract

Long-term tracking of small-size animals with wireless sensor networks remains a challenge as only limited energy harvesting and storage is possible due to stringent size and weight constraints for animal collars. We present first experiences towards a perpetual monitoring system for free-living flying foxes. The high mobility of flying foxes requires a delay tolerant wireless network for data gathering: GPS positions and sensor data have to be stored locally until a wireless gateway deployed in bat congregation areas, so called roosting camps, comes within radio range. In this chapter, we present the system architecture and discuss our design decisions towards sustainable and reliable monitoring of flying foxes with a limited energy budget for sensing, storage and communication. Using empirical data from three free-living flying foxes, we characterize the overall system performance in terms of energy consumption and latency.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Anthony, D., Bennett, W., Vuran, M., Dwyer, M., Elbaum, S., Lacy, A., Engels, M., Wehtje, W.: Sensing through the continent. In: ACM/IEEE IPSN (2012)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Burri, N., von Rickenbach, P., Wattenhofer, R.: Dozer: Ultra-low power data gathering in sensor networks. In: ACM/IEEE IPSN (2007)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Butler, Z.: From robots to animals: virtual fences for controlling cattle. J. Robot. Res. 25, 5–6 (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  4. Corke, P., Wark, T., Jurdak, R., Moore, D., Valencia, P.: Environmental wireless sensor networks. Proc. IEEE, 98(11), (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Dyo, V., et al.: WILDSENSING: design and deployment of a sustainable sensor network for wildlife monitoring. ACM Trans. Sens. Netw.8(4), (2012)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Ferrari, F., Zimmerling, M., Mottola, L., Thiele, L.: Low-power wireless bus. In: ACM SenSys, (2012)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Gnawali, O., Fonseca, R., Jamieson, K., Moss, D., Levis, P.: Collection Tree Protocol. In: ACM SenSys, (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  8. Jurdak, R., Sommer, P., Kusy, B., Kottege, N., Crossman, C., Mckeown, A., Westcott, D.: Camazotz: multimodal activity-based GPS sampling. In: ACM/IEEE IPSN, (2013)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Zhang, P., Sadler, C.M., Lyon, S.A., Martonosi, M.: Hardware design experiences in ZebraNet. In: ACM SenSys (2004)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Ben Mackey, Philip Valencia, Chris Crossman, Luke Hovington, Les Overs and Stephen Brosnan for their contributions to this project.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Autonomous Systems Lab, CSIRO Computational Informatics, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Philipp Sommer, Branislav Kusy & Raja Jurdak

  2. CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Cairns, QLD, Australia

    Adam McKeown

Authors
  1. Philipp Sommer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Branislav Kusy
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Adam McKeown
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Raja Jurdak
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Philipp Sommer .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Koen Langendoen

  2. Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT), CSIRO ICT Centre, Pullenvale, Queensland, Australia

    Wen Hu

  3. Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory ETZ G81, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Federico Ferrari

  4. Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory ETZ G81, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Marco Zimmerling

  5. Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Luca Mottola

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

About this paper

Cite this paper

Sommer, P., Kusy, B., McKeown, A., Jurdak, R. (2014). The Big Night Out: Experiences from Tracking Flying Foxes with Delay-Tolerant Wireless Networking. In: Langendoen, K., Hu, W., Ferrari, F., Zimmerling, M., Mottola, L. (eds) Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 281. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03071-5_2

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03071-5_2

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-03070-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-03071-5

  • eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation