It’s Here: The Evolution Series 500 GSM & Argos Hybrid GPS Wildlife Tracker

Introducing the ES-500 – the world’s first and only GSM telemetry device with Argos Satellite capability. Available now!

You asked, we listened

While cellular data networks can transmit the most information, they are not available everywhere. Argos can work from anywhere, sending limited amounts of your high-precision data.

Now you can have the best of both worlds with the CTT ES-500.

When your animal leaves the GSM coverage area, summary data is transmitted to the Argos network. Critical information, such as the most recent 20+ high-precision positions, device health, activity data, as well as illness or mortality information, can be transmitted from anywhere.

Once your animal returns to the cellular coverage area, our large data sets can be sent over the GSM network, providing you a full, rich data set on migratory patterns and behavior.

Argos hybrid capability is available on tracking devices at 50 grams and above.

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Also, with our smart Argos duty cycles, Argos can be configured to transmit only when needed, and certain days of the month. This can substantially reduce Argos data charges, further reducing operating costs.

Exclusive CTT Argos Data Portal

At CTT we take data seriously, and we know you do too. For our Argos users we’ve created a dedicated Argos Data Portal just for you.

From viewing your data in an interactive map, to digging deeper into your transmitter’s health and history, to downloading your data to visualize and analyze however you wish, the CTT Argos Data Portal puts all of the tools at your fingertips in an easy to use format.

This past winter we deployed several of their new ES500 Argos-GSM hybrid units on wintering snowy owls. This is an especially exciting step for us, because for the first time we’ll be able to  continue to track our birds in real time as they migrate north into the Arctic, while knowing we’ll get their full, amazingly detailed data sets when the owls come south again and connect with the cellular network. (And if they fail to make it back south, we will for the first time know where they met their fate.)  We simply couldn’t do the work we do without CTT.

Scott Weidensaul, co-founder Project SNOWstorm (www.projectsnowstorm.org)

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