Jose Luis Albarracin de la Torre

Technician (M)

PROGRAM / Conservation biology

Training in the Internet of Things (IoT), networks and protocols, practical applications using boards such as ESP32, ESP8266, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi, for the remote monitoring of different variables.

Since 2017, he has collaborated with the Biodiversity Monitoring Tools team, contributing to the design and assembly of various innovative applications sucha as: a photovoltaic power system for BUGG acoustic recorders within the TABMON project; GPS-enabled Audiomoth recorders for the EVOLARK project; and the autonomous “Toropi” recorder, based on BIRDNET microsoftware, developed for the remote detection of the bullfrog; design and manufacture of LOGCAVE prototypes (hardware and firmware), a light recorder used to assess human presence in caves, which was registered as a public utility model—the first patent filed at the CTFC; installation of micro-cameras in bat nest boxes with open-source firmware for recording and remote control; design and production of BIRDLOG CTFC (registered trademark), an autonomous device for bird identification using passive RFID technology and of Recoti, a low-cost autonomous bird recorder, within a joint CTFC-UAM project.