Digilab

Digilab is a New Zealand-founded artificial intelligence company specialising in bioacoustics and ecological applications. It helps conservation and environmental organisations monitor biodiversity by collecting and analysing wildlife sounds with minimal disturbance to animals. Its services support community-based organisations, conservation agencies, policy-makers, and environmental compliance managers.

Digilab can plan, implement, analyse, and report on acoustic surveys. Clients can use their own autonomous recorders, rent equipment from Digilab, or engage the team to run a recording deployment. The company also works with large existing audio archives, including datasets exceeding 150,000 hours. Its specialists design, train, and deploy AI models that detect target species in extensive recordings, accounting for environmental noise such as wind and rain. With suitable training data, models can identify individual animals as well as species.

Digilab presents findings through tailored analysis and reporting, with interactive visualisation options for exploring and summarising large numbers of detections. Its work includes acoustic identification of individuals and single-species and multispecies surveys, combining expertise in research, engineering, and conservation to advance wildlife monitoring.