cronicl
An educational biodiversity monitoring app for engaging people in citizen science
cronicl, verb., Welsh translation of chronicle; to create a detailed record of events over time.
We made cronicl as a way for everyone to get involved in monitoring their local biodiversity. It encourages the environmentally conscious to explore their surroundings together and participate in citizen science.
Challenge
Biodiversity describes the variety of life in the environment, from plants and animals to fungi and lichen.
Biodiversity in the UK has halved since the start of the industrial revolution, with more species of biota at risk of extinction than ever before (State of Nature, 2023).
We know that drastic action needs to be taken to save biodiversity, but it's hard for non-experts to even know where to start.
What is cronicl?
cronicl is a progressive web application, that allows users to record plants and animals they find while exploring their local natural space. We've created an extensive design for the entire cronicl web app, and are currently implementing a prototype.
Whilst all features can work solo, cronicl is designed to be collaborative, where users can be connected in a "session". This session could be school children attending a bioblitz event, or a group of friends walking around their local park. All users captures will be displayed as markers on a shared map, with live notifications for achievements, or if an exciting species has been found.
AI Identification
cronicl has a custom AI model to detect plants/animals/fungi, which suggests the closest match to the user, helping to improve their recordings.
Our model works offline, and typically predicts the species in ~2 seconds, feel free to try our live demo.
Group Sessions
cronicl can connect users in sessions, where they can see live updates of eachothers recordings. The above image shows an interactive dashboard from the end of a session, summarising a user's findings, and some stats from the rest of the group.
Welcoming and Vibrant Interface
cronicl has a consistent bright and welcoming design, aimed to appeal to both children and adults.
We have designed for portait and lanscape orientations, for all sizes of phones and tablets.
Organisation Management
cronicl can be deployed to any organisation, with dashboards for managing all sessions, recordings and users data.
Perhaps a student has forgotten their username, or an organisation wants to export their recording data to analyse in different software, the management tools have you covered.
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