Newsletter

The DOC AI Cam can now run the AI on the camera and has new audio settings. We're testing a low light solar panel and ramping up manufacturing.

This newsletter describes updates to the DOC AI Cam that include the ability to add a transparent overlay photo to thermal cameras to make it easier to understand videos. There are also significant improvements to the audio monitoring along with a brief update about the high interaction rate trap development.

DOC AI Cam: Improved waterproofing, new bird monitoring features, improved Sidekick app, case studies

High interaction rate trap: new spool trigger mechanism and testing of the DOC AI Cam controlling the trap.

The audio bird monitoring functionality is now available on the DOC AI Cam, along with a new case, new seal, SIM card holder, low power mode, daily and weekly summaries, battery logging, ability to remotely change settings and a new Sidekick. There is also a new, lower cost, lighter version of our high interaction rate trap.

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Thermal camera updates: 

• A description of how you can power it with solar
• An iOS version of Sidekick app
• The ability to easily do test recordings
• A preview of our new visits dashboard

Our bird monitor can now automatically recognise generic bird calls.

A summary of our Fieldays experience.

This newsletter covers updates across our products

• Banks Peninsula bird song analysis
• New functionality for our bird monitors and thermal cameras, including the ability to set up your own alerts.
• A story of some success at protecting Mamaku Point with our cameras and trap.

Thermal cameras: research about when they are most cost effective, their accuracy and their ability to detect Dama wallabies. As well as various software improvements, including adding photos to stations, hierarchical tags and recognising penguins
Bird monitors: software updates that allow you to synchronise bird monitors and change the length of the recordings, as well as being able to upload from SD cards.
Traps  - funding from 2050, progress on auto-reset, intelligent triggering, and auto kill, along with updates on trials by DOC and Predator Free Banks Peninsula.

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• A new product: a thermal camera with a speaker attached to allow easy experimentation with audio lures
• Software updates making it easier to tag birds in audio recordings and improving the productivity of reviewing thermal videos from our cameras
• Machine vision on our thermal cameras, allowing a host of innovative applications now the camera knows what it's seeing in real time
• The Cacophony team have continued their work on their AI powered trap.

2 new products: Hazing and camera posts. A bird tagging interface mock up, software updates and the latest on the Cacophony Project traps.