Manufacturing Partnership with Kitron
Reliable, field-ready electronics behind every deployment — built with a specialist manufacturing partner since 2021.
Partner
Kitron
Partnership Since
2021
Focus
Electronics Manufacturing
Status
Active
The Challenge
A tracking collar on a free-ranging elephant cannot be recalled for a quick repair. Devices must survive heat, dust, water, impact, and years of continuous operation — which makes the quality of the electronics inside them a conservation issue, not just an engineering one. Savannah Tracking designs its tracking systems and bespoke electronic components in-house, and needed a manufacturing partner that could produce them to a standard the field demands.
The Partnership
Since 2021, specialist electronics manufacturer Kitron has manufactured tracking devices for Savannah Tracking. The collaboration pairs Savannah Tracking's behavioural-ecology-driven design work with Kitron's production expertise, so every device that leaves the line is built for the environments where it will spend its working life.
In the Field
The devices built through this partnership support wildlife monitoring and conservation work across Africa and beyond. Public reporting offers a glimpse of that work: Kitron's coverage of the partnership, citing the Mara Elephant Project's Q1 2025 Research & Tracking Report, describes a bull elephant named Lempiris fitted with a Savannah Tracking collar and monitored for ongoing conservation response in the Mara.
Source
Kitron, "Kitron and Savannah Tracking: partnership for conservation," 18 May 2026 — kitron.com
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