BRAVO System Information

LIVE STREAMING | ARCHIVE

SCREENSHOTS | ANIMATIONS
 

We design, build and supply underwater fish and wildlife monitoring systems. These units are designed for long-term, semi-permanent installation. Our combined and fully integrated hardware, software and firmware systems can, in relative terms:

1)  See - 580 lines of color high resolution video with infrared illumination at night
2)  Remember - biological data are filtered and stored internally
3)  Communicate - video and all sensor data uploaded live to the internet and to our 
     central Waterloo BRAVO server for secondary biological analysis (fish counts, 
      biomass estimates,  behavioural trend analysis, interannual ecological relationships
4)  Hear - system can detect and log signals from electronically-tagged fish
5)  Feel - water temperature stored every 30 seconds and uploaded live online
6)  Smell (coming soon) - water quality including pH, DO, ammonia, turbidity etc etc....

SEMI-PERMANENT UNDERWATER STREAMING VIDEO, TEMPERATURE AND TELEMETRY SYSTEM

MOBILE UNDERWATER VIDEO MONITORING SYSTEM

Typical hardware and software configurations consist of 1- 4  live underwatrer streaming (with night IR) 580 line color high-resolution video camera/sensor pack and a system that automatically filters, collects and transfers novel and interesting fish activity for education and research.  The system operates automatically using a DSL internet connection, AC/DC power.   We will guide you through the installation process.  Applications include scientific research, fish and wildlife monitoring, marine biological applications, underwater surveillance, education and basic fun.  The underlying premise is that if you look, you will find!  It's like having a graduate student collecting the best detailed underwater observations reliably, around the clock, throughout the year, at a variety of depths during all kinds of weather conditions.

This underwater fish monitoring network can be used to achieve long-term research objectives related to inter-annual variation in fish migration patterns, migration timing and habitat utilization on a global scale.  The system has been proven to be useful for monitoring endangered freshwater mussels, crayfish, diving ducks, turtles and a wide variety of fishes and marine and freshwater invertebrate species (see our archives).

EXAMPLE SCREENSHOTS:

Please contact us directly for prices of various custom node designs - all of which are hosted free and streamed live through Biotactic.com