Wearable Sensor-Fusion Survey Rig

@techreport{hamilton2026wearable, author = {Hamilton, Michael P., Ph.D.}, title = {Wearable Sensor-Fusion Survey Rig}, institution = {Canemah Nature Laboratory}, year = {2026}, number = {CNL-TN-2026-060}, month = {july}, url = {https://canemah.org/archive/document.php?id=CNL-TN-2026-060}, abstract = {This note records the conceptual architecture for a wearable sensor-fusion rig intended to support ecoSPLAT surveys at Canemah Nature Laboratory field sites. The rig pairs Brilliant Labs Halo augmented-reality glasses with an NVIDIA Jetson Orin fusion hub carried in a pack, together with acoustic and positional sense nodes, an existing 360° imaging rig, and an iPhone serving as voucher camera and network bridge. Halo functions not as an imaging device but as a head-pose sensor, a canopy-light probe, a capture trigger, and a heads-up display surface. The Jetson acts as master clock, disciplining all subordinate nodes to a single timebase so that heterogeneous streams — position, acoustic detections, imagery, head orientation, ambient luminance, and spoken field notes — can be co-registered after the walk. A latency-tolerant API path to Galatea provides deep-time archive context and non-real-time species identification. The note also specifies a privacy protocol appropriate to surveys conducted in public spaces, in which the rig is dark by default and armed only by deliberate physical action. Hardware acquisition has not yet occurred; this document precedes purchase and is intended to establish the design against which the Halo evaluation will be judged.} }