{"id":55090,"date":"2024-05-21T04:37:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/the-ai-tech-helping-stop-indian-elephant-accidents\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T04:37:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T04:37:36","slug":"the-ai-tech-helping-stop-indian-elephant-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/the-ai-tech-helping-stop-indian-elephant-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI tech helping stop Indian elephant accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/78C9\/production\/_133312903_gettyimages-1236508412-594x594.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"The AI tech helping stop Indian elephant accidents\" title=\"The AI tech helping stop Indian elephant accidents\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Project manager Ashish Rajput said that the AI system&#8217;s cameras, comparable to those used by the Indian Army along the nation&#8217;s borders, are programmed to even detect humans near railway lines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When elephants are detected within 100ft of the railway track, alerts are sent to forest and railway officials, who coordinate to slow down trains and guide the elephants away to prevent collisions. Four personnel continuously monitor the system in the control room near the railway track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project, launched in February, has been executed at a cost of 72.4m rupees ($867,758; \u00a3683,976), says Supriya Sahu, secretary of the Tamil Nadu Forest Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Previously, forest personnel conducted regular patrols along railway tracks to monitor elephant activity. Ms Sahu said this method had limitations, and ensuring complete elephant safety from accidents posed &#8220;significant challenges&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-68988189\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project manager Ashish Rajput said that the AI system&#8217;s cameras, comparable to those used by the Indian Army along the nation&#8217;s borders, are programmed to even detect humans near railway lines. When elephants are detected within 100ft of the railway track, alerts are sent to forest and railway officials, who coordinate to slow down trains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/78C9\/production\/_133312903_gettyimages-1236508412-594x594.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[1656,22945,19644,1025,759,2416],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55092,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55090\/revisions\/55092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}