The Instinct Automated Surveying Unit (ASU) is the world's first satellite-enabled automated acoustic wildlife surveying system. Our device records audio with a user-programmable schedule and settings like other ARUs; then, it runs the latest USFS classification algorithm immediately after recording, classifying over 70 species which may be heard in the audio. Finally, the device beams the counts/results via satellite so that detections of species are known within hours of being recorded, instead of what is currently months or even over a year. The system is continually expanding to support classification of more species (currently supports 135 sounds including anthrophony such as gunshots).
Instinct's environmental telemetry system is a satellite-enabled weather station system which can detect wildfires directly, monitor controlled/prescribed burns, and otherwise provide data on site conditions that can be used to inform forest management operations year-round. The system reports temperature, humidity, soil/stream temperature, wind speed/direction, solar radiation and precipitation. Customers save time and money by relying on our monitoring rather than travelling to/from remote sites just to check simple conditions such as snow cover or if precipitation has fallen on the site.
