As Big Cat Brother uses state-of-the-art technology it is important to let you know who are supporting or providing some collaboration to this project, what they want and what are the plans to make this project feasible in terms of costs, both regarding development and operational costs. As a basic criteria for this project I made some decision:
 

1. I won't accept technology impositions, everything used to develop this project was selected by me following this criteria:
    

   • Hardware ​must be power consumption efficient, these devices are meant to be deployed on hard to access places, thus battery life must be long in order to minimize maintenance costs.

   • The use or deployment of development tools must not include license fees

   • Components must be ROHS compliant, Companies must have an eco friendly policy

   • Unless a few exception where they are needed, data operator fees are avoided. The accepted exceptions has to do with Ranger communications and/or any specific requirement imposed by stakeholders (NGOs, National Parks or local government)
      

2. Big Cat Brother's components won't be commercialized in the private market (with the exception of Cow Collars under the proper control mechanism).
    

3. As this project advances more capital is needed, every source of capital will follow the criteria specified here and will be published in this page.
    

4. The WildEdge Initiative has the objective of engaging people in solving similar Biodiversity Issues, however, sensitive information won't be allowed to be publish on this site, nor by me nor by other people in the future using the Your Voice section. Many people believes that banning this kind of information will also prevent good people to do good things, it is my decision not to take the risk. By sensitive information I mean:
    

   • Actual Computer Vision / Machine Vision algorithms design to recognize species.

   • Communication protocols.

   • Geo-located data or pictures.

   • Device to Device communication details.