HumBug – An Acoustic Mosquito Monitoring Tool for use on budget smartphones

Mosquito surveys are time-consuming, expensive and can provide a biased spatial sample of occurrence data—the data often representing the location surveys, not mosquitoes. We present HumBug project, an acoustic system that turn any Android smartphone into mosquito sensor. Our sensor has potential to significantly increase quantity as well access locations more difficult survey by traditional means. describe our database wild-captured fight tone audio outline detection algorithms these train. also MozzWear App, designed work on budget smartphones, which, together with Net (an adapted bednet), facilitates collection allows user record directly upload flight tones from dwelling bednet in field. vastly understanding distribution species space time greatly improve needed assess success or failure ongoing vector control measures. At when WHO reports plateauing decade-long decline malaria mortality rates, this new technological solution for surveying vectors will timely resource.