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World’s first Cheetah Smart Parks at Cheetah Conservation Fund Centre
Over the course of the last few months, Smart Parks has provided the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) with new technology to monitor the animals and assets on CCF’s 67,000-hectare private reserve, model farm and Field Research and Conservation Centre in Otjiwarongo, Namibia. The [...]
ElephantEdge tracker: Designing the firmware and first prototype solution
For the past two months IRNAS and Smart Parks, in partnerships with Hackster.io have been working on building the next generation OpenCollar ElephantEdge tracker, closely looking at requirements and features that make this a success. Two key concepts are driving [...]
Hackster.io, Smart Parks, and Key Industry Partners to Build World’s Most Advanced Elephant Tracker
Smart collars, designed via a global engineering challenge, will protect Africa’s dwindling elephant population, powered by advanced telemetry dashboards and machine learning models PHOENIX, Ariz. – In response to a growing crisis facing Africa’s diminishing elephant population, two technology leaders [...]
First LoRaWAN® Elephant Collar successfully deployed in Liwonde
Park Rangers in Liwonde National Park in Malawi are for the first time able to see elephant locations every fifteen minutes. This is possible due to new Smart Parks technology providing Rangers with GPS-locations four times an hour. With this [...]
Smart Parks is looking for a new Wildlife ProTechtor!
Smart Parks is looking for a passionate conservation technology field engineer with a no-nonsense, getting-things-done attitude to extend our team. This means you know your way around computers, (LoRaWAN) networks and sensor technology and you share our passion for the [...]
A new way of tracking Namibia’s desert lion
Smart Parks has established the first Smart Park in Namibia, creating new opportunities to monitor the fragile desert-adapted lion population. The project was conducted in collaboration with Desert Lion Conservation and the Dutch IT-company CARE. With an estimated population of 150, so-called desert [...]