Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector

Echo Meter Touch allows you to listen to, record, and identify bats with your iPad, iPhone. or iPod Touch **This app requires the purchase of the Echo Meter Touch Ultrasonic Module in order to detect bats. It is available for purchase from www.wildlifeacoustics.com**

The Echo Meter Touch Ultrasonic Module senses ultrasonic signals up to 128 kHz, digitizes the signal, and transmits the ultrasonic data to the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch through the Lightning connector.

The Echo Meter Touch App offers unprecedented features for a handheld bat detector:

LISTEN TO BAT’S ECHOLOCATIONS IN REAL TIME
Echo Meter Touch translates bat echolocations into frequencies that are audible to humans using two technologies. Wildlife Acoustics’ patented Real Time Expansion (RTE) allows you to listen to bats in real time with unparalleled fidelity. RTE maintains the timing and tonality of the original echolocations. Heterodyne (HET) listening is also available, for those accustomed to that way of hearing bats. Manual and automatic tuning is available.

VIEW THE ECHOLOCATIONS ON A SPECTROGRAM
A real-time spectrogram shows the frequencies and timing of the echolocations. Scroll back in time and zoom in on previous "bat passes."

SEE MOST LIKELY BAT SPECIES IN REAL-TIME
The Auto ID feature analyzes the echolocation calls and suggests the two most likely bat species matches in real time. This is the same technology used in our professional Kaleidoscope Pro Bat Auto Identification software. Currently, the app can identify 26 species in North America, 25 in Europe and 57 in the neotropics. For more information on Kaleidoscope and a full list of species, visit our website.

RECORD TO .WAV FILES
Activate triggered recording mode to automatically save bat passes to full spectrum .wav files for analysis on a computer or to view on your iPad or iPhone. Or use manual record mode to control start and stop of recording. View the recording spectrogram and add voice or text notes. Listen to the recording using RTE, HET, or traditional Time Expansion Playback (playback at fractional speed to make the ultrasound audible).

SEE YOUR PATH AND RECORDING LOCATIONS
View your path, including recording locations in satellite or road map view. View identified species codes directly on the map. Go to the recording's spectrogram from the map view. Transfer to your computer to view in Google Earth. Your iPad or iPhone must have GPS capability or you must use a Bluetooth GPS receiver for this functionality.

*Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.*

TRANSFER RECORDINGS TO YOUR COMPUTER
The Echo Meter Touch can transfer full spectrum .wav recordings to your computer over a Wi-Fi network or cabled through iTunes. Using Wi-Fi, the app bundles the recordings in a .zip folder and allows download by entering a URL in any web browser.

SHARE RECORDINGS VIA EMAIL OR MMS MESSAGING
You can share recordings via email or text message and import and open files that have been shared with you.

NOTE: Because bats vary their echolocation calls in response to a wide variety of needs, no automated call identification can achieve 100% accuracy in species identification. Nevertheless, in the hands of well-trained experts, bat detector recordings can be used to identify many species, providing invaluable discoveries. The Echo Meter Touch allows high quality recording suitable for analysis by experts. The built-in Auto-ID feature also suggests the two most likely bat species for each recording, for the enjoyment of enthusiasts hoping to learn more about bats. These automated identifications, though largely accurate, should not be relied on as a basis for scientific research. Auto-ID is intended for use in analyzing recordings of single bats in free flight in low clutter environments. Recordings of roost emergence, multiple or captive bats, bats in high clutter environments, or bat social calls are not suitable for Auto-ID.