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Albanu Wildlife Foundation: Empowered by Albanu x Silotron Technology
The Albanu Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is dedicated to safeguarding elephants and rhinoceroses through innovative monitoring technologies, enabling anti-poaching units and researchers to effectively protect these endangered species. All of AWF’s technological solutions are sourced from the groundbreaking partnership between Albanu x Silotron, a collaboration committed to revolutionizing wildlife conservation.
Identifying the Need for Innovation
Extensive consultations with conservation organizations revealed a critical need for technological advancements in monitoring. Traditional tracking collars are costly, cumbersome, and have a limited lifespan, necessitating a comprehensive rethinking of tracking systems.
Albanu x Silotron: A Game-Changing Solution
Addressing these challenges, Albanu x Silotron developed a next-generation tracking solution tailored to the unique needs of wildlife conservation. Instead of relying on outdated, bulky collars, the team engineered lightweight, durable trackers utilizing LoRaWAN technology. These trackers are designed to:
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Reduce weight: From 22 kg to just 750 g, making them less intrusive for animals.
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Extend lifespan: Incorporating kinetic energy technology, the trackers harness the animals’ movements to power themselves, ensuring longevity and reliability.
This state-of-the-art system ensures secure and real-time monitoring of elephants and rhinoceroses, offering a level of precision and efficiency that surpasses existing solutions.
Integrated Monitoring and Prevention
Albanu x Silotron’s solution connects seamlessly to a fixed or mobile terminal, facilitating the secure exchange of information and ensuring interoperability among IoT devices, drones, and gateways deployed in monitored areas. Key features include:
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Centralized Supervision: A local or cloud-based control tower coordinates all elements of the solution, from IoT trackers to drones and vehicles.
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Comprehensive Coverage: Fixed and mobile terminals enhance field operations, enabling rapid response and preventive measures.
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Scalable Deployment: The system integrates with drones, cameras, and other devices to optimize data collection and security.
A New Era in Wildlife Protection
The Albanu x Silotron solution empowers the Albanu Wildlife Foundation to focus on its core mission of conservation by providing cutting-edge tools for real-time tracking, anti-poaching efforts, and habitat monitoring. This partnership redefines how reserves manage wildlife protection, prioritizing prevention and proactive intervention to ensure the safety of endangered species and their ecosystems.
Through this innovative collaboration, the Albanu Wildlife Foundation is not just protecting animals—it’s shaping the future of conservation technology.
Albanu x Silotron: Revolutionizing Wildlife Protection with Advanced Technology
The innovative approach of Albanu x Silotron centers on utilising state-of-the-art technologies to combat poaching and protect endangered species, particularly elephants and rhinoceroses. Through groundbreaking solutions, they redefine how reserves manage wildlife and detect threats to biodiversity.
While the Albanu Wildlife Foundation (AWF) leads conservation initiatives, it sources all technological solutions from Albanu x Silotron, ensuring a seamless integration of advanced systems into its efforts to safeguard wildlife.
Animals exhibit unique behavioral patterns in response to predators, humans, and environmental changes. By studying these patterns through artificial intelligence (AI), it is possible to anticipate and act on potential threats, turning animal behaviour into an early warning system against poaching.
Our Approach
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Advanced Animal Tagging
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Animals are tagged with low-frequency trackers developed by Albanu x Silotron, equipped with micro-kinetic chargers. These ensure continuous operation, minimizing the need for frequent retagging.
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Strategic LoRaWAN Gateways
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LoRaWAN gateways are strategically deployed to monitor animal movements 24/7, providing real-time data across reserves.
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Drone-Assisted AI Programming
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Drones are deployed during the initial phases to monitor animal behavior, recording reactions to human and vehicle presence. This data feeds into AI systems, training them to understand and predict behaviors accurately.
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Digital Twin Technology
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Using AI and the data collected from trackers and gateways, a digital twin of the reserve is created. This model provides access to historical data, enabling advanced movement predictions and improved management practices.
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Poaching Detection and Intervention
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When human activities or poaching triggers are detected, the system raises alarms. Drones equipped with human detection and facial recognition capabilities validate these alarms and track potential poachers, aiding anti-poaching units in swift interventions.
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Comprehensive Park Management
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LoRaWAN technology enables monitoring of water points, pumps, soil conditions, and other park infrastructure, ensuring an integrated management system. Staff, vehicles, and park assets are also tracked for operational efficiency.
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Visitor Monitoring
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Temporary magnetic detectors can be attached to visitor vehicles, tracking movements to enhance security and create a fully AI-driven park management ecosystem.
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Commitment to Conservation
This cutting-edge approach demonstrates the Albanu Wildlife Foundation’s unwavering commitment to protecting wildlife by implementing solutions developed by Albanu x Silotron. Together, they merge technological innovation with conservation efforts, creating a holistic system that not only defends endangered species but also optimises the management of natural reserves.
This collaboration exemplifies how advanced technology can safeguard our planet’s precious wildlife, setting a new standard for conservation efforts worldwide.
Transverse functionalities
Mapping Features
The Albanu x Silotron solutions are designed to provide advanced mapping capabilities, enabling the identification of key environmental and contextual characteristics of areas to be protected. These features allow for the implementation of highly effective protection strategies tailored to the unique needs of each reserve.
Before deploying any solution, a comprehensive field analysis is conducted. This process involves gathering existing data sources and performing a detailed map survey of the targeted reserve. The goal is to collect all necessary information to develop a strategic and tactical plan for field operations. With this data, Albanu x Silotron devices can be positioned at the most critical locations and times, ensuring optimal control and security of vulnerable areas.
Multi-Reserve Cloud Management and Coordination Features
The cloud-based capabilities of Albanu x Silotron solutions allow for the consolidation and analysis of data from multiple reserves. This centralized system is instrumental in creating effective action plans and coordinating swift responses to potential threats, such as poaching incidents or habitat breaches.
To maximize the benefits of these advanced tools, the Albanu Wildlife Foundation (AWF) relies on the AI-powered IoT management and centralized data platform provided by Albanu x Silotron. By leveraging these state-of-the-art technical components, AWF ensures seamless coordination and enhanced decision-making across multiple reserves, reinforcing their mission to protect endangered wildlife effectively.
This synergy between Albanu x Silotron’s technological innovations and AWF’s conservation efforts ensures a robust and comprehensive approach to safeguarding wildlife and preserving ecosystems.
WHERE WE WORK
We are currently working in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. We do hope to be able to extend our work quickly to Eastern Africa and in the future in Asia as well. Our technologies can be applied to help protect any numbers of animals not just only elephants. It will be a great help toward Rhino poaching as well.
