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Team members:

• Shamlan Albahar
• Rifaah Alkhamis
• Doug Bloomquist
• Christopher DeBoer

The design objective is to create a wireless sensor network that can be used to study wildlife and how it reacts to changes in its environment. This will be done by creating small, low power sensor boards that have the ability to sense movement, temperature, humidity, light, geological shocks, sound, take photographs, perform simple data manipulation and interpretation.

The key considerations for this project will be size, durability, and power consumption. The boards need to be small and cheap in order to be used in the large scale wireless sensing networks we are proposing. Additionally, they will be exposed to the elements 24 hours a day and will need to be able to withstand rain, snow and hot and cold temperatures. Also, it is not viable to replace the boards' batteries often. They need to last months if not years. This means the power consumption of the boards will need to be minimal or that the boards will need an external power source which could come in the form of solar.