discussion / Camera Traps  / 24 May 2017

Recommendations Needed: GSM Camera Traps

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if people had any decent GSM camera trap recommendations

We've been using Scoutguard and Spartan camera traps and have had success with those. The Scoutguards have so far been fairly robust (we've got some out in Kenya that are two years old and still going) and tranmission is okay but I do find the interface for set up for the Scoutguard a bit of a pain to explain to people in the field. 

Was thinking of testing out a couple of other models to compare and it would be good to get recommendations of ones worth trying out.

Chloe




Ltl Acorn is No 1 popular in china wildlife survey. From sichuan to Dongbei. (No.2 is shit, easy broken,cheap. No. 3. is good as well, who has worked with ZSL in a nepal project,)

Ltl Acorn 6210 might have problem in too wet habitat like rainforest after used for 2 years because the design, other things are quite good. for normal/dry season, no problem.

Ltl Acorn's UK dealers have exciusivity in UK.

Shipping from china to kenya is easy. Ltl Acorn 's owner Mr. Liu is my friends.

If any thing i could help, leave me a message.

Cheers.

Hi Chloe,

I've had promising results with the Scoutguard MG983G-30M, and I believe a 4G version has just been released. The 3G version has some useful features, like two-way communication to change settings/get images and a audio call feature (which I haven't used). I'd be very pleased to hear how your tests go.

Cheers,

Rob

 

Thanks everyone,

@TopBloke @Kai - I've not come across the Ltl Acorn ones - will take a look. So does that mean if it was purchased in the UK it would be locked to a UK SIM then? That might be problemativ as we tend to purchase here to test and set up before  sending out when staff are heading back to the country of deployment.

@Rob+Appleby - That's good to know about the Scoutguard MG983G-30M too, thanks. 

A supplier is going to send me a new model by the same people who make Scoutguard to test but he hasn't said what it is. Maybe it's the 4G one. Whatever it is if it is any good I will feed back on here

Chloe