Hello, I’m in the process of setting up a Technology Showroom in Classic Village, Pannimadai, Coimbatore, South India, highlighting the various types of Artificial Intelligence (AI) aided Elephant Early Warning Systems (EWS) which I have developed to specifically mitigate Human~Elephant Conflict (HEC). This will be a one-stop shop for checking out more than a dozen different solutions & technologies implemented in a 200 Acre Plot, situated in the middle of an Elephant Conflict Zone. This is not theoretical but practical working models implemented in the field for testing and Proof of Concept. Most of the solutions are in place and working well and the efficacy can be seen as they complement & substantiate each other in the Alert Generation whenever an Elephant is detected.
Video documentation of Elephants visiting this area is available at:
Elephants in Classic Village 2014-2017: https://youtu.be/_0-SfQe-Vjs
Elephants in Classic Village 2018-2019: https://youtu.be/Hs2ts3RR0lI
Elephants in Classic Village 2019 : https://youtu.be/uSDkVYO_yUE
Thermal Videos of Elephants in Classic Village - November 2018 Ver 2.0: https://youtu.be/2tYi_WZhDLc
A Brochure highlighting the various AI solutions & technologies is attached for your perusal. Video Links for each of them are available, describing their working in the Field.
A Synopsis of the various AI solutions & technologies available at the Technology Showroom can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/Hqcb_7jznYQ
For any clarifications or visits to the Technology Showroom, please call me on: +91-9843170559 (WhatsApp) or mail me at: [email protected]
Thank you.
Tim Vedanayagam
advantech_tech-showroom_brochure.pdf advantech_date_link_solutions_profile.pdf19 March 2020 9:15am
Hi @Tim+Vedanayagam
Thank you for posting this. I'd be happy to contribute to the thermal sensing work under way. Can you confirm - have you built a thermal AI model and trained / labelled data for a particular camera?
We have been training a model for low cost (Lepton 3.5) thermal cameras via a challenge with WWF / Wildlabs and have 30,000 labelled images as our training dataset of Asian elephants. We're focusing on Deeplabel and YOLO with a plan to port to Tensorflow and it will be open source, so applicable for others to use and adopt in their early warning systems that use thermal.
More info here - https://www.zsl.org/blogs/conservation/zsl-whipsnade-zoo-becomes-a-space-for-high-tech-wild-elephant-conservation
Kind regards,
Alasdair
Alasdair Davies
Arribada Initiative