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Camera-based bird and bat monitoring
AI detection and species classification from Spoor, with the system around it built, installed and supported by WISE Group.
Cameras watch a defined area and AI detects, tracks and classifies what passes through it — birds and bats, day and night. Where a consent condition asks which species are present and what they are doing, classification is what answers it.
WISE Group works with Spoor, a Norwegian climate-tech company whose platform produces continuous, species-level ecological data for impact assessment and compliance reporting. We supply and support everything that detection needs in order to keep working where it is installed.
What it produces
The output is a continuous record rather than a sample: what was detected, when, and — where the platform can classify it — what species it was. That record is what an impact assessment, a permitting authority or a compliance report draws on.
Detection runs day and night. After dark the cameras depend on infrared illumination, which WISE Group supplies and controls as part of the system.
What WISE Group supplies
The detection and classification software comes from Spoor. What WISE Group brings is everything that has to work around it, offshore, for years.
- Cameras and compute. The cameras and the hardware the detection software runs on, specified for the site and for the species named in the condition.
- Infrared illumination. Supplied and controlled, so detection continues after dark.
- Power, enclosures and communications. Equipment built to survive an offshore substation or a turbine, with power and data paths that hold up through a winter.
- Installation and commissioning. Access, lifting, cabling and the documentation the site needs in order to accept the system.
- Service for the life of the consent. Spares, verification and support, so the record keeps being produced for as long as the condition runs.
Infrared lighting and telemetry in Orbalux
Cameras need light to work after dark. WISE Group supplies the infrared lighting and controls it, so illumination follows the operating need rather than running continuously.
Telemetry from the deployed systems, and control of that lighting, are integrated into Orbalux — WISE Group's own platform. The detection software stays with Spoor; the installation around it is monitored and operated from the same place as the rest of the asset's monitoring.
Where radar fits
Cameras identify what is in frame. Radar covers a volume of airspace and tracks movement through it, including in darkness and weather that defeats optical detection. The two answer different halves of the same question, and some consent conditions are best met by using both.
Working with Spoor
On some projects Spoor present the complete solution and WISE Group deliver the system behind it; on others WISE Group lead the project and bring Spoor's detection into a wider monitoring scope. Which arrangement applies is usually decided by who the site is already talking to.
About our partnership with Spoor →
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Talk to us about a site
Tell us the consent conditions you are working to, the asset the equipment has to sit on, and when the site needs to be monitoring. We will come back with what a system would contain and what we would need from the detection partner.