Development of cloud-based bioacoustics monitoring system for supporting Integrated Pest Management in agriculture production

Abstract

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a conception or way of thinking about Management of Plant Pests with a multidisciplinary ecological approach to managing pest populations by utilizing a variety of compatible control tactics in a coordinating management unit. Acoustic signals produced by insects can be used as a source of information about their presence and behaviour. Problems encountered in observing acoustic signals produced by animals in the context of integrated pest control are supporting equipment factors that can facilitate data acquisition, data management, and species identification based on audio recordings (species identification). The objective of this study is to design microcomputer-based bioacoustics monitoring system that is integrated with the cloud. In more detail, the specific objectives are (1) Designing microcomputer-based bioacoustics monitoring system as a supporter of data acquisition systems with cloud integration features, (2) Testing the performance of a bioacoustics monitoring system for field observations. Bioacoustics monitoring system based on a microcomputer with cloud integration has been developed to support the implementation of integrated pest management. The developed system uses a raspberry pi as a central processing unit in local for data acquisition systems that are connected to the cloud using the Internet connection. As a result of the laboratory-scale test in indoor and outdoor setup, the system could record sample insect sound (Katydid and Cricket) clearly for both conditions, although noise from environment also appears in data analysis affecting the insect identification in future utilization.