00:00Here at Muddy Lake we're working on improving a system called Biomon, which is a near real-time
00:06acoustic monitoring system that helps us identify species of frogs and birds that are calling in
00:12the environment immediately in time. We were very fortunate to receive funding from Origins
00:19Community Fund to help us actually improve Biomon so that we can now detect rare and threatened
00:25species in the landscape and we're actually trying to train Biomon to detect the green and golden
00:31bell frog which is a threatened species and this is the last known population in the Lake Macquarie LGA.
00:37To deliver this project there's a whole number of different coordinations of technologies and
00:42at Safi we're locally based in Newcastle and we develop AI devices for the harsh environment.
00:47We partnered with the uni about two and a half years ago with the idea of Biomon. It was a
00:51good
00:51coordination of the two parties coming together. We can visualise AI detection so at the moment we
00:56can see there's different calls at different times of the day, you can see if it rains there might be
01:01a lot more calling and it's just a great visual way to see it in action. It's been good to
01:05see.
01:05This technology is groundbreaking for biodiversity monitoring. In the next 12 months we're hoping to
01:12optimise Biomon such that we are very very confident of its detections of green and golden
01:18bell frogs at Muddy Lake so that we know that the population is surviving.
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