AquaMote

Type
Conference Paper

Authors
Lee, Eun Sun
Jeyakumar, Jeya Vikranth
Balaji, Bharathan
Wilson, Rory P.
Srivastava, Mani

KAUST Grant Number
KAUST Sensor Initiative

Date
2017-11-06

Abstract
Tagging animals with sensors is a powerful approach to acquire critical information about the behavioural ecology of free-living animals, which ultimately can provide data to inform best practice in conservation efforts. Sensor tags for such deployments need long lifetimes and incorporate multiple sensors, especially location because space use can contextualize behavior. The tag size needs to be minimal so as not to affect the activities of the animal. Aquatic animals in particular present challenges due to lack of wireless communication and water-proofing. Taking these points into consideration we have designed Aquamote: an ultra-low power, tiny sensor tag (20 x 29 mm2) which integrates accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, depth sensor, GPS and BLE. Our poster will showcase the performance of AquaMote and highlight our design decisions to reduce its size and power consumption.

Citation
Lee, E. S., Jeyakumar, J. V., Balaji, B., Wilson, R. P., & Srivastava, M. (2017). AquaMote. Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems. doi:10.1145/3131672.3136992

Acknowledgements
This research is funded in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF CNS-1329755 and by the KAUST Sensor Initiative. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of the funding agencies.

Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Conference/Event Name
15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2017

DOI
10.1145/3131672.3136992

Additional Links
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3131672.3136992

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