Last Updated: 16/08/2017
Acoustic Tracking of Mosquito Swarms for Vector Control
Objectives
The overall goal of this project is to develop an acoustic software to locate mosquito swarms by their sound, thereby allowing elimination of thousands of breeding vector mosquitos that can cause diseases such as malaria. It has already been demonstrated that a single distant mosquito in a noisy laboratory setting can be acoustically detected.
The team will further develop acoustic locator hardware and sensors targeting the common malaria mosquito Anopheles and field-test its performance in locating swarms from several tens of meters. By studying the acoustics of single mosquitoes as well as of swarms, it could be possible to track the behaviour of individuals and to artificially induce swarm formation, to further support disease control efforts by creating acoustic signals in traps to attract mosquitoes.
Nov 2015 — May 2017
$100,000