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

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

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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 Aluminum/Wooden Ornament 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 Dryer Filter Grille enable rapid, non-invasive species identification.

As proof-of-concept, we carry out field demonstrations where minimally-trained users map local mosquitoes using their personal phones.Thus, we establish a new paradigm for mosquito surveillance that takes advantage of the existing global mobile network infrastructure, to enable continuous and large-scale data acquisition in resource-constrained areas.