About TRAK TFRC

Wildlife services built by researchers, for researchers

TRAK TFRC is a wildlife services company founded to give field ecologists the same connectivity and data infrastructure that urban teams take for granted — wherever their work takes them.

Our Mission

Enabling conservation through better field science

Censusing animal populations and the study of animal movement are vital in a world of dwindling natural spaces with increased contact between humans and wildlife. Knowledge of how wildlife uses the environment along with regular censusing helps researchers and governments shape environmental policy for more sustainable conservation.

TRAK TFRC is a wildlife services company. We provide an easy-to-deploy, long-range, and solar-powered network along with a myriad of sensors that provide real-time updates to forest staff and researchers — even in areas of no cellular connectivity.

Researcher in jungle with tracking antenna

What Drives Us

Principles behind the platform

Field-first design

Every feature is designed for the conditions researchers actually face — humidity, darkness, exhaustion, no signal. If it doesn't work in the jungle, it doesn't ship.

No infrastructure dependency

TRAK is fully self-contained. No cell towers, no satellite subscription, no data plans. If you can get there, TRAK works there.

Open data, open science

Data belongs to the researcher. We make it easy to export to Movebank and international databases so science can be shared and built upon.

Customised solutions

No two field sites are the same. We work with each organisation to design the right hardware configuration, frequency plan, and data schema for their study.

Our Team

The people behind TRAK

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Ishaan Raghunandan

Founder

Ishaan is an information science engineering graduate, trained photographer, and conservationist. He has documented the lives of pastoralists for the NGO Sahjeevan, headed photography projects on rehabilitation of sex workers and transgenders for the Government of Karnataka, and participated in the tracking of Amur falcons for Wildlife Trust of India. He has a decade's experience in the Amazon working with Field Projects International, including seven years deploying tracking and monitoring equipment for research.

Aditi Raja

Co-Founder

Aditi is the Former Accountant General at West Bengal, Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. She is an energy expert and holds a PhD in Nematology from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.

Funders

Organisations that have funded TRAK TFRC research and development.