I am sorry if this has come up before but is it possible to link audiomoth to something else that can transmit what audiomoth hears in real time to a central computer? Where I would need to do this is remote but has 3G and I would be focussing solely on a single sound of interest - a rifle shot. This is early in my thinking...I know that this has been done to detect shotgun fire, but not as far as I can tell in realtime. In essence, I would like to use this as a realtime antipoaching measure. I am very open to collaboration here and have access to a field site that is perfect for developing this.
LoRa does not work for real time monitoring, for several reasons. Regulations forbid continuous transmission, it would consume a lot of power and LoRa is a very slow speed transmission system; that helps it achieve long ranges.
So you would need the "intelligence" to detect and time a gunshot on the Audiomoth itself, using LoRa to send an alert when needed.
Hi, It's possible to use AudioMoth as the sensor for this. You would need to develop the sensor platform with the 3G modem as a standalone device, and then AudioMoth could communicate with this using the GPIO pins on the top surface of current PCB. The firmware would also need to be extended to implement this functionality. We've done this in Belize in a few trials using LoRa radio. Our development plan for AudioMoth 2 includes the idea of developing a 'dev board' version of AudioMoth that can easily be added onto another sensor platform to implement this type of functionality. Alex