Open Acoustic Devices
Open Acoustic Devices makes AudioMoth, a roughly $100 open-source acoustic logger that is now a de facto low-cost standard for biodiversity acoustic monitoring, with fully open hardware and firmware on GitHub.
Open Acoustic DevicesInside Open Acoustic Devices
AudioMoth is a small, low-cost acoustic logger (around $99.99, with variants from roughly $45 to $145) that captures audio and ultrasonic sound for biodiversity and environmental monitoring.
Both the hardware designs and firmware are open-source on GitHub under the OpenAcousticDevices organisation, distributed via GroupGets group-buys and resellers. It originated as a University of Southampton research project.
It is an open hardware project rather than a hosted platform, so integration is at the data-format and tooling level, not via a vendor API.
Affordable, dense acoustic sensor deployments for community and project-level biodiversity monitoring, the low-cost recorder layer feeding bioacoustic analysis pipelines.
Recent developments
- May 2024Released updated AudioMoth configuration app and firmware.
- Mar 2024Shipped HydroMoth, an underwater variant of the AudioMoth logger.
Using Open Acoustic Devices in a project
The provider’s own site holds its current capabilities, access terms and documentation. Read them before selecting the tool or planning an integration.