Early warning system to aver human elephant conflict

• A research team from Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, had designed the “smart fence for early elephant warning”. It was recently installed at Ammapalayam village on the Bhavani Sagar – Mettupalayam Highway where elephants frequently cross the road.
• The team headed by Sanjoy Deb, and comprising L. Rajasekar, R. Ramkumar and S. Selvakumar, designed the system that would send an SMS (short messaging service) to farmers and forest officials upon detecting elephants.
• The new smart fence is composed of a detection module, warning module and a drive-away module. The detection module is a long distance laser fence indigenously designed by the team and can be operated up to 400 metres.

The Hindu - November 21 2018