Services
Conservation technology design & development
Arribada co-develops open, customisable and impact-driven conservation technologies for conservation organisations across the globe, driving down costs and scaling up access to the tools and solutions we need to solve conservation challenges, together.
We currently specialise in:
- Satellite and GPS telemetry
- Biologging
- Low-cost thermal sensing
- Rugged timelapse cameras
- Acoustic machine learning
- Passive acoustic reflector design
Arribada Argos Satellite Sea Turtle Tag
Developed over a period of 8 years, our latest adult sea turtle satellite tag is a 100% open source Kineis (Argos) satellite tag capable of generating accurate positions at the lowest price point possible for Argos sea turtle satellite telemetry hardware.
Development of the tag started in São Tomé and Príncipe with Fundação Príncipe, expanded to North Cyprus with SPOT, to Guinea-Bissau with The Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas (IBAP), to Cape Verde with Fundação Maio Biodiversidade, the Maldives with The Olive Ridley Project and finally, French Guiana with WWF French Guiana.
Contact us directly if you are interested in purchasing these tags for your own projects and studies.
Early warning detection of polar bears
Explore our conservation technology research and development work in the Arctic with WWF. We’re developing a low-cost thermal camera system to automatically detect the thermal signature of polar bears to alert local response teams to their presence.
We’re here to help
Research & Development
Open source technology can provide a gateway to exploring new concepts, possibilities and advancing conservation technology by accelerating development through the re-use of existing software and hardware. We can conduct short investigative research or develop new hardware from scratch.
Co-design
Working together to solve technical challenges can help to advance projects that require that little extra support.
We currently co-design solutions with organisations across the globe and can offer software or hardware support, including the physical placement of staff to support field testing & validation if required.
Customisation
You may have spotted a conservation technology or solution that nearly caters to your requirements but needs to be customised further to achieve your goals. An example of this could be:
– The miniaturisation of biologging hardware
– Modifying & customising off-the-shelf hardware
– Cost reduction of existing solutions
– Custom enclosure design
– Incorporting new sensors
Message in a Bottle
Tracking Plastic for National Geographic’s Sea to Source Expedition
Where does plastic waste in the Gange’s river go? It’s a question National Geographic’s Sea to Source Expedition team wanted to answer. Using Arribada’s Horizon tracking platform, 30 plastic water bottles were outfitted with our new Argos ARTIC transmitter to track their journey down river to the open ocean.
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What we’re working on
Arribada Horizon Biologging & Telemetry
- Open source hardware biologging platform
- Supports Argos ARTIC
- Supports 2G/3G Cellular
Arribada & ZSL
Rugged Timelapse Cameras
- Configurable timelapse for long-term deployments
- Low cost, rugged and scalable
Penguin Watch
Human-Elephant
Conflict Mitigation
- Low-cost thermal imaging
- Embedded machine learning (Tensorflow)
- Early warning alerts
WWF & Wildlabs
Polar Bear Early
Warning Detection
- Low-cost thermal imaging
- Embedded machine learning (Tensorflow)
- Cellular / LoRa alerts
WWF & Wildlabs
Microbial Fuel Cell
Development
- Electricity generation using living plants and microbes
- Perpetual power for low-energy IoT sensors
- Early stage prototype
Plant-e, Cambridge University, Xnor.ai, ZSL
microMoth
- Miniaturised AudioMoth
passive acoustic recorder - Developed for animal
bourne attachments - Compatible with existing AudioMoth firmware
Designed by Ruby Lee,
Open Acoustic Devices
Angelshark acoustic
telemetry
- Custom enclosure design to seat Vemco receivers
- Multi-partner colaboration
Angel Shark Project
Ocean Tracking Network
SMART Desktop / Connect live data
- Display live data received via sensors in SMART Desktop
- LoRa bridge (show live LoRa sensor data within SMART)
Developed by Krasi Georgiev
Github
https://github.com/arribada
@arribada_i
YouTube
Visit our YouTube channel
contact@arribada.org
We’re all in this together
Arribada United Kingdom
To talk to our team in the UK / Europe (GMT), discuss volunteering with us, or for general conservation technology enquiries, feel free to mail us at contact@arribada.org or join our Slack community channel.
Arribada USA
To talk to our team in the USA (EST), or for general conservation technology enquiries within the United States, feel free to mail us at contact@arribada.org or join our Slack community channel.