{"id":32013,"date":"2025-04-14T03:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32013"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:31:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:01:52","slug":"batechomon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/batechomon\/","title":{"rendered":"BatEchoMon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BatEchoMon Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, India\u2019s First Automated Bat Monitoring and Detection System was created by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<h2>What is BatEchoMon?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>BatEchoMon<\/strong> stands for <strong>\u201cBat Echolocation Monitoring\u201d<\/strong>. It is <strong>India\u2019s first automated, real-time bat monitoring and detection system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The system was developed by <strong>bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande<\/strong> and <strong>engineer Vedant Barje<\/strong> under the guidance of <strong>Jagdish Krishnaswamy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was designed as part of the <strong>Long-Term Urban Ecological Observatory<\/strong> at the <strong>School of Environment and Sustainability<\/strong>, <strong>Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bengaluru<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What Does BatEchoMon Do?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>BatEchoMon autonomously detects, records, analyses, and classifies bat echolocation calls in real-time<\/strong> \u2014 something that previously took researchers months to do manually.<\/li>\n<li>It includes:\n<ul>\n<li>An <strong>ultrasonic microphone<\/strong> using a modified <strong>AudioMoth<\/strong> device.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>Raspberry Pi<\/strong> microprocessor to process and classify calls.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>solar-powered battery<\/strong> for power and a <strong>Wi-Fi unit<\/strong> for data transmission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The device activates <strong>automatically at sunset<\/strong> and continuously records audio through the night.<\/li>\n<li>It uses a <strong>convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm<\/strong> to distinguish bat calls from other sounds and to classify them based on <strong>peak frequency and call structure<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The output includes:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Spectrograms<\/strong> (visual frequency-time plots of bat calls),<\/li>\n<li><strong>Audio files<\/strong> of bat calls,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Species-specific statistical data<\/strong> showing call frequency and timing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>BatEchoMon FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>What is BatEchoMon?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> A bioacoustic monitoring system using AI to detect and classify bat species via their echolocation calls, aiding conservation efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>How does BatEchoMon help biodiversity?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> Tracks bat populations (key pollinators\/pest controllers), identifies endangered species, and maps habitat changes due to urbanization\/climate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.<\/strong> What tech does BatEchoMon use?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> Combines ultrasonic sensors, machine learning algorithms, and GPS to create real-time bat activity databases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/batechomon-india-first-automated-bat-monitoring-detection-system\/article69445704.ece#:~:text=It%20is%20India&#039;s%20first%20automated,Settlements%20(IIHS)%2C%20Bengaluru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BatEchoMon stands for \u201cBat Echolocation Monitoring\u201d. 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