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04-02-2025
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Rompa & Wildlife – A Smart Connection 🦁🐘🦏

Our innovations support industries worldwide, from Automotive to Life Science. But they also help wildlife rangers protect endangered animals. In remote areas, real-time tracking is key to safeguarding lions, elephants, rhinos, and even sheep in the Netherlands.
🔗 Discover how this unexpected connection is making an impact.

Rompa & Wildlife – A Smart Connection 🦁🐘🦏

Rangers dedicate their lives to protecting endangered animals from poaching, habitat destruction, and human-wildlife conflicts. But while they work to safeguard wildlife, who ensures their safety and efficiency in the field?

That’s where Smart Parks' RangerEdge, with design support from Rompa, plays a critical role. This tracking and monitoring device helps rangers stay connected, detect nearby movement, and respond quickly to potential threats in remote conservation areas.

Rompa’s Contribution: Built for the Wild

Protecting rangers requires more than just advanced tracking technology—it demands durability, reliability, and usability in extreme conditions. That’s why Rompa designed and produced the rugged, lightweight housing for RangerEdge, ensuring it can withstand the harsh environments rangers work.

✔ Weather-Resistant Casing – Shields the device from heat, rain, and rough terrain.

✔ Lightweight & Practical – Easy to carry and attach to gear without adding bulk.

✔ Impact Protection – Helps maintain functionality in demanding situations.

Tjeerd Schoen, Design & Innovation Director at Rompa

"Our goal was to create a housing that is not only durable but also practical for rangers who rely on it daily. By combining the right materials and precision engineering, we ensured RangerEdge can handle extreme conditions without compromising reliability." – Tjeerd Schoen, Design & Innovation Director at Rompa

Smart Parks’ technology provides GPS tracking, contact detection, and AI-powered movement analysis, but it needed a strong, reliable casing to ensure it works in the field—that’s where Rompa’s expertise made a difference.

What Smart Parks Says About This Collaboration:

“With the help of Rompa engineers we have created a long-lasting product (RangerEdge), that is used in many different wildlife conservation applications. For organizations like us, it is very hard to make the step from a few working units to a series-produced product. This means we can get to a very high level of quality, against lower costs. The only way to scale up our activities to a scale that makes sense beyond getting a few more likes on Instagram. Without the help of Rompa, this would have been very hard. We are now looking into following this same approach also for our various wildlife tracking devices, like the CollarEdge.” – Tim van Dam, Co-Founder of Smart Parks

Technology Supporting Conservation

With better tracking, coordination, and awareness, rangers can respond faster to threats, prevent poaching, and protect wildlife more effectively. This collaboration is a great example of how design, innovation, and conservation come together to make a real impact.

🔗 See RangerEdge in action! Watch the video here: 👉 https://youtu.be/wkznfzapK7c

Want to learn more about Rompa Group 's approach to innovation and design? Feel free to reach out to Tjeerd Schoen for insights into our work on durable, high-performance enclosures for conservation technology.