Leveraging conservation action with open‐source hardware

Sep 5, 2019 1 min read 👏

Publishing date: 2019-09-05

Published on: The Society for Conservation Biology

summary: Data collection by conservation biologists is undergoing radical change, with researchers collaborating across disciplines to create bespoke, low‐cost monitoring equipment from open‐source hardware (OSH). Compared to commercial hardware, OSH dramatically reduces participation costs. Four barriers currently hold back its wide adoption are considered in this Policy Perspective article.

authors: Andrew P. Hill Alasdair Davies Peter Prince Jake L. Snaddon C. Patrick Doncaster Alex Rogers

link to paper: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12661

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