"We can monitor the status of birds and human activities in real time through decision-making superbrain, so that we can more accurately and comprehensively grasp the base and dynamic changes of biological resources and ecological environment in the reserve. In mid-March, in the Qilihai Wetland located in the Ninghe River, Ma Xuan, a staff member of the Qilihai Wetland Conservation Center, was introducing to reporters how the managers can conduct three-dimensional monitoring of wildlife and ecological environment in the reserve through the intelligent monitoring system of the Qilihai Biodiversity Monitoring Platform.
Located in the Ninghe River, the Qilihai Wetland is one of the world's three major ancient coastal wetlands and an important ecological "back garden" in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. It is an important wintering and breeding ground for the global migratory bird migration corridor from East Asia to Australasia, with more than one million migratory birds migrating through the country every year, and the Qilihai wetland has become a veritable bird paradise.
This intelligent monitoring system feeds back the real-time data of the environment, species, voiceprints, and videos to the terminal through the front-end sensing equipment in the wetland, and hands it over to the system for efficient collection and analysis, so as to obtain basic information such as bird species, quantity, and distribution in the wetland in a timely and accurate manner, and provide a scientific basis for wetland protection.
The platform uses the Internet of Things and other technical means to install monitoring and sensing equipment in many places in the wetland, including 6 fixed bird video surveillance, 10 mobile bird monitoring, 40 voiceprint equipment, 50 electronic boundary posts, and 30 patrol terminals. Ma Xuan introduced.
In order to maintain the biodiversity and ecological balance of the Qilihai Wetland, in 2021, the Qilihai Wetland Nature Reserve fully combined with the relevant planning and requirements of the protection and restoration of the Qilihai Wetland and publicly released the "Tianjin Qilihai Wetland Ecological Evaluation Index System", which has a positive guiding role in strengthening ecological monitoring and promoting the protection and restoration of the Qilihai Wetland ecosystem.
On this basis, Qilihai has built an integrated biodiversity monitoring system composed of monitoring sensors, monitoring platform decision-making command center, etc., all data can be visualized through the decision-making command center, and managers can obtain real-time monitoring data and compare it with the indicator system to better protect the health of wetland ecosystems.
"This indicator system is also to monitor the various indicators set in our Qilihai wetland to evaluate the effectiveness of our Qilihai protection and restoration. It sets a basic value, and another is our target value, through this monitoring system, it can correspond to the indicators in the indicator system, reflect the change of this value through monitoring, and grasp the real-time situation of the seven miles of nautical miles at any time, providing us with certain data support. Han Baoliang, deputy director of the Qilihai Wetland Conservation Center, said.
The intelligent monitoring system uses the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies to add scientific and technological "wings" to the protection and management of the Qilihai wetland. With this "strongest brain", the area that rangers could not go to in the past can now monitor the dynamic situation through the camera, and the more alert birds can also be recorded through the equipment for audio and video, especially the emergency situation in the wetland, which can be more convenient and accurate for the management personnel to capture and deal with it quickly.
"In the future, we should make full use of new technical means and new equipment, and constantly improve the system in combination with traditional models, so as to make it more and more accurate and strengthen the level of science and technology. Through the combination of 'civil air defense' and 'technical defense', the health of the Qilihai wetland is guaranteed. Han Baoliang, deputy director of the Qilihai Wetland Conservation Center, said.