Reimagining Environmental Data To Upgrade Conservation
September 21st, 2021
Via Sentinel, an interesting initiative to reimagine and democratize environmental data:
The Sentinel is Conservation X Labs’ new artificial intelligence device that addresses emerging extinction threats. The tool retrofits existing devices, such as trail cameras and acoustic recorders, to enhance how efficiently conservationists can act on important events.
The device instantly runs machine learning models on data as it is captured and sends notifications to users in real-time. This allows users to know if something critical, like the presence of a poacher or endangered species, is detected so they can take immediate action.
Henrik Cox, Product Management Engineer, deploys a Sentinel to monitor wildlife in Virginia.“The Sentinel democratizes creating, running, and deploying machine learning models by providing leverage to conservationists everywhere” said Alex Dehgan, Co-Founder and CEO of Conservation X Labs. “The Sentinel will fundamentally change how we monitor and protect the environment – from catching poachers before they can get away, monitoring endangered species in real time, and detecting new diseases before it’s too late.”
Leveraging advances in artificial intelligence through tools like the Sentinel can profoundly increase the scale and efficiency of conservation efforts to better understand and respond to environmental challenges and will allow us to better protect animals around the world.
The Sentinel has been selected for use in a variety of unique projects around the world capturing wide-ranging information, including identifying rare jaguars in Costa Rica, informing wildlife crime officers of suspicious behavior in South Africa, and monitoring gorilla behavior in the Congo. It was a grand prize winner at the 2021 ASME ISHOW, an international accelerator for hardware-led social innovations.
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