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Using Mobile Phones as Acoustic Sensors for High-throughput Surveillance of Mosquito Ecology

Haripriya Mukundarajan, Felix JH Hol, Erica A Castillo, Cooper Newby, Manu Prakash
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/120519
Haripriya Mukundarajan
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Felix JH Hol
2Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Erica A Castillo
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Cooper Newby
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Manu Prakash
2Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Abstract

The lack of high-resolution field data on the abundance, species and distribution of mosquitoes is a serious impediment to effective control of mosquito-borne disease, yet the availability of high-throughput, low-cost surveillance techniques remains a bottleneck in generating such data. Here, we establish that commercially available mobile phones (including low-cost basic models) are a powerful tool to probe mosquito activity, by sensitively acquiring acoustic data on their species-specific wingbeat sounds, together with the time and location of the human-mosquito encounter. We survey a range of medically important mosquito species to quantitatively demonstrate how acoustic recordings supported by spatio-temporal metadata enable rapid, non-invasive species identification. As proof-of-concept, we carry out field demonstrations where minimally-trained users map local mosquito fauna using their personal phones. Thus, by leveraging the global mobile phone infrastructure with the potential for engaging citizen scientists, our approach enables continuous large-scale acquisition of mosquito surveillance data in resource-constrained areas.

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Using Mobile Phones as Acoustic Sensors for High-throughput Surveillance of Mosquito Ecology
Haripriya Mukundarajan, Felix JH Hol, Erica A Castillo, Cooper Newby, Manu Prakash
bioRxiv 120519; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/120519
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Using Mobile Phones as Acoustic Sensors for High-throughput Surveillance of Mosquito Ecology
Haripriya Mukundarajan, Felix JH Hol, Erica A Castillo, Cooper Newby, Manu Prakash
bioRxiv 120519; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/120519

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