Sound Security — Renoster at the forefront of conservation
Combining conservation and technology to help rangers in the fight against poaching.
Welcome to our adventure! 👋
Renoster Systems is the growing innovator in conservation technology. We develop audio acoustic technology to detect gunshots in the African savannah, and as well as provide data analytic tools to optimize ranger operations. Our engineers design products with the rangers in mind to best fit the needs of the reserve.
At Renoster we also strongly believe that conservation involves a team. Our company began at Northwestern University, and our team now stretches over 15 time zones between California and Singapore. From the rangers risking their lives to ensure the safety of endangered species to the engineers testing machine learning algorithms, we all are bound by the urgency to protect our environments.
Founder and CEO Saif Bhatti created Renoster Systems on the basis of bold adventure to bring together a diverse team that would do good with engineering.
The atmosphere at Renoster is a microcosm of global conservation as a whole: it’s an entire community of hard work and dedication to wildlife conservation.
There were 594 reported poachings in South Africa alone in 2019, and about every 15 hours poachers kill a rhino. With only two northern white rhinos left in the world, public investment in conservation innovation is crucial to grow animal populations.
Renoster Media 📽
This month we founded Renoster Media, our conservation news initiative covering the top stories in engineering and conservation. Stay tuned to hear more stories of engineers and researchers doing good with engineering. This will also be where we post Renoster testing and updates.
COVID-19 continues to prove our dependence on a global network — especially with conservation. Prolonged external border restrictions into Africa have interrupted scientific approaches to the reproduction of endangered species. Scientists and researchers have been unable to enter countries, including Kenya, to collect rhino eggs for in-vitro fertilization processes. Read more about the scientific restrictions arising from COVID-19 here, as well as some recent success stories here.
