Innovate UK has awarded a significant grant to AgriSound, a Yorkshire-based tech company, to advance acoustic monitoring technology.
- AgriSound is on the brink of launching a groundbreaking system for biodiversity monitoring, which promises to transform industry standards.
- The technology enables automatic, maintenance-free landscape monitoring, enhancing data accuracy and availability for land management.
- Collaborations with ecological and agricultural partners will support the technology’s development and application on a larger scale.
- Current users of AgriSound’s technology include major corporations seeking to improve environmental compliance and insights.
Innovate UK has announced a £220,000 grant to AgriSound, an agriculture technology company based in Yorkshire. The funding is dedicated to the development of an innovative acoustic monitoring system poised to be the first of its kind globally. This technology aims to make biodiversity monitoring fully automated and maintenance-free, providing industries and landowners with timely and accurate biodiversity data.
AgriSound’s CEO and co-founder, Casey Woodward, expressed that their new system would revolutionise the way biodiversity data is collected and utilised. “Our new acoustic monitoring system is the first solution to offer fully automated, maintenance-free landscape monitoring at scale, giving industries and landowners access to more accurate, timely, and comprehensive biodiversity data,” he stated.
The company is aligning this new development with its existing product, Polly, which currently assists various organisations, including Tesco, M&S, Innocent Drinks, and AB InBev, in biodiversity monitoring. The integration aims to offer low-cost, holistic biodiversity monitoring solutions that meet rigorous regulatory standards.
To enhance its offering, AgriSound will partner with Baker Consultants, a reputed UK ecological consultancy, and Crop Innovations, an agricultural charity. These collaborations are expected to boost the technological capabilities of AgriSound’s system by leveraging advanced audio analysis algorithms and cloud-based artificial intelligence.
Dr Carlos Abrahams, Director of Ecoacoustics at Baker Consultants, remarked on the system’s potential impact: “We are anticipating that the new system will greatly expand our capabilities to rapidly generate biodiversity information, and make this available in real-time across a landscape-scale array of sensors.” This progression in data collection aims to provide more detailed and cost-effective ecological insights.
AgriSound’s innovative technology is set to lead a new era in biodiversity monitoring, providing vital tools for sustainable land management.
