Internet of Things for wildlife monitoring

In the past 15 years, Internet of Things (IOT) provides efficient technology support for the biology and zoology research. In this manuscript, we focus on three applications of wildlife monitoring: location tracking, habitat environment observation, and behavior recognition. A monitoring unit includes sensing, communication, and relative hardware and software components. We analyze the IOT platform for monitoring scenarios, and discuss system implementation from four aspects: identification, mobile access point, monitoring device and application. We introduce preliminary research on the development of a GSM communication based tracker, and give some considerations on resource saving mechanisms from four aspects: MCU rest and activation, local data computation and integration, data storage, and effective data transmission.