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Water, Waste & Environment · Advanced

Biodiversity sound monitor for forests

ENV-06 · Original hackathon problem statement from Arventiq Labs

The problem

Counting species in forests is expensive, and sound can reveal a lot.

What to build

Develop a device and model that identifies bird calls and logs presence over time.

Success looks like

Species identification reported with precision per species on a labelled set and a low-power field unit.

Suggested technologies

  • Bioacoustics
  • Spectrogram CNN
  • Edge devices
  • Solar power
  • Data pipelines

An original, independent statement. It is not an official Smart India Hackathon problem statement, and Arventiq Labs is not affiliated with or endorsed by that programme. The scenario is illustrative and does not describe any specific organisation. Free to use with credit.