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Radio Propagation studies by Viktor Toldov in Stellenbosch

Radio propagtion through vegetation low above ground level, is known to be very difficult to model. Some attempts to do this, were carried out by Viktor during his visit to Stellenbosch University, South Africa, end last year. He used a new UHF transmitter module, which could then be evaluated at the same time. He got …

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PREDNET planning meeting at Inria Lille-Nord Europe

A very useful PREDNET planning meeting took place at Inria Lille Nord Europe on 7 &8 Aug recently. It was attended by Inria and SU researchers headed by Dr Nathalie Mitton and Dr Riaan Wolhuter respectively. Also attending, were the two SU postgrad students doing research on the Inria test platforms. SP le Roux presented …

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Rhino movement classifier implemented!

SP le Roux of SU has managed to successfully implement an on-animal rhino movement classifier. The code has been embedded in the same low power CPU for the tag recently developed and tested at the rhino orphanage. We can now get real-time information whether the animal is behaving normally, or not. For convenience, the system …

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