Wildlife Acoustics Announces the Song Meter SM2BAT+ Ultrasonic Monitor

CONCORD, Mass., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wildlife Acoustics, Inc., the leading supplier of acoustic monitoring systems for endangered and threatened wildlife species around the world, announces the next generation terrestrial ultrasonic passive acoustic recorder, the Song Meter SM2BAT+.

"With the SM2BAT+, for the first time bat biologists now have a solution for ultrasonic bat monitoring that supports both full spectrum and zero crossing natively in the same product," said Ian Agranat, President and CEO of Wildlife Acoustics. "We are providing the best of both worlds for half the price of the nearest competitor.  Supporting both technologies ensures compatibility with all industry standard bat analysis software. This is especially important now as bat monitoring guidelines are evolving worldwide."

The Song Meter SM2BAT+ now records natively in zero crossing mode without requiring post processing conversion. These files are not digitally created but instead use zero-crossing hardware. In zero crossing mode, bat biologists can record over a month of nightly recordings using only the internal D batteries (longer with the Wildlife Acoustics Song Meter SM2 Power Adapter) and expect a 32GB card to last for any deployment length.

For our full spectrum customers, Wildlife Acoustics reduced the post-data analysis time by enabling onboard filtering of triggered recordings.  The SM2BAT+ in full spectrum mode now automatically eliminates irrelevant files that don't have bat activity. The recordings are saved directly as WAV files and opened directly in analysis software without any conversion. As always, full spectrum customers can digitally convert their files to zero crossing if they prefer to document both types of files.

With the new SM2BAT+ customers will continue to enjoy the other features of the Song Meter family including the two channel recording capability, flexible recording scheduler, weatherproof housing and weatherproof microphones. The SM2BAT+ also features several mechanical improvements making it the most robust ultrasonic passive acoustic monitor on the market.

The Song Meter SM2BAT+ is available now starting at US $999.

About Wildlife Acoustics, Inc.
Wildlife Acoustics, Inc., a privately held Massachusetts corporation, is the leading provider of bio-acoustic monitoring technology for scientists, researchers, government agencies and environmental consulting firms worldwide since 2003. Our customers monitor birds, frogs, bats, insects, fish, whales, elephants, rhinos and other wildlife.

SOURCE Wildlife Acoustics, Inc.

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