AI-based surveillance system to check forest trespassing besides monitoring wild animals

The artificial intelligence-based surveillance cameras installed by the Forest Department at three places in the Coimbatore Forest Division will also check trespassing of people into the forest, besides their primary task of monitoring wild animal movement towards human habitations. Tower-mounted AI-based cameras have been installed near Maruthamalai and near Ponnuthu Amman temple at Thadagam in the Coimbatore forest range and near the Ulagambikai Amman temple in the Madukkarai forest range. However, at present, the cameras have been focused to particular points between forests and human habitations to check the movement of wild animals, especially elephants, to prevent them from entering villages,” he said. The camera installed near Maruthamalai will detect movement of elephants towards IOB Colony, which is often witnessing movement of wild elephants.