Support for Zoological Field Studies of small mammals (e.g. a specific type of mice) by capturing small mammals in "catch and release" traps (Longworth or other type). For such studies dozens or hundred of traps are in use. The traps have to be checked 3 to 4 times a day for a captured animal.
The actual project which triggered ths use case, took place in a mountain area, which results in a substantial physical effort to control the traps by visiting them.
If the traps would have a sensor node attached indicating "animal captured, trap-id" the control effort could be substantially reduced.
Depending on the area to bee monitored, no internet access might be available. In this case data must be stored locally (persistent) at the gateway location, either in the gateway itself (packet forwarder) or in locally attached laptop or similar device. The scientist would stay near the gateway in an "Alpine Hut" or so to monitor the trap's status. Then he would go to the activated traps only to do the scientific work and release the animal. While doing this, he would carry the gateway with him, to be notified when other traps get activated during his control walk. It would also be necessary that the traps send a "Node ok" message every half hour to make sure, that no animal will be kept in a trap and be hurt because of a node or transmission failure. The Lorawan technology was briefly explained and a responsible scientist proposed to further discuss the case.
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Support Zoological Field Studies of small mammals
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