Using mobile phones as acoustic sensors for high-throughput mosquito surveillance.

ABSTRACT: The direct monitoring of mosquito populations in field settings is a crucial input for shaping appropriate and timely control measures for mosquito-borne diseases. Here, we demonstrate that commercially available mobile phones are a powerful tool for acoustically mapping mosquito species distributions worldwide. We show that even low-cost mobile phones with very basic functionality are capable of sensitively acquiring acoustic data on species-specific mosquito wingbeat sounds, while simultaneously recording the time and location of the human-mosquito encounter. We survey a wide 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 c

SUBMITTER: Mukundarajan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5663474 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature