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Evolution and sustainability of a wildlife monitoring sensor network

As sensor network technologies become more mature, a key challenge has become how to make these emerging wireless sensor networks more sustainable. This paper reports the findings from a design and one year deployment of an automated wildlife monitoring system for analysing the social co-location patterns of European badgers (Meles meles) residing in a dense woodland environment. It describes the stages of its evolution cycle, from implementation, deployment and testing, to various iterations of software and hardware optimization. It reports on preliminary descriptive analyses of a subset of the data collected, and the key lessons learned in a large scale long-term deployment. [The paper was accepted to ACM SenSys, the leading conference for sensor networks, and according to google scholar has 56 citations].