Welcome To Encounternet
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The Encounternet Project
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| Encounternet is a project to design a network of long-life wireless transceiver tag devices that can be worn by small animals such as songbirds. Encounternet tags continuously monitor the social associations and movement patterns of individuals within a community or neighborhood of individuals. The system is modular and can be adapted for sensing, storing, and transmitting behavioral and physiological data. Devices will weigh approximately 1 gram and will consist of a small microprocessor, a digital radio transceiver, and a power supply. Devices can be additionally fitted with sensor technology such as a microphone, accelerometer, or a physiological recording amplifier circuit.
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| All hardware and software will eventually be open-source and freely available to anyone under the GNU licencing agreement. We are currently developing Encounternet and a key goal is that the system should be easy to use and available and affordable to as many researchers as possible.
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News
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June, 2009
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The Encounternet project was officially funded through the NSF Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR) program. Award info
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Sept 15, 2009
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John Burt talked about the Encounternet project at the MIT HEMBI conference.
Ewen Callaway wrote an article about the project for New Scientist
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