Wild animal tracking by PHS (Personal Handy phone System)

摘要

Miniaturization and integration of portable devices have been achieved so remarkably day by day that wearable computing is being realized. It seems that vast amounts of wearable information devices will be attached not only to human beings but also to nature environments and artifacts and they will be connected with intelligent network in the future. We attached PHS location devices to urban animals such as Raccoon Dogs and Crows and tracked them. In the Crow experiments, in which lighter devices than 30g were required, we realized the Crow tracking with PHS location devices, which weighed about 28 g.