The new kind of camera set-up, called the TrailGuard AI camera-alert system, being tested are slim devices that can be inconspicuously set up within the foliage of trees. The TrailGuard system can be set to specifically capture humans or species of interest — lions, tigers, cheetahs. “Researchers and forest department officials received notifications of tiger presence via email or push notification between 30 and 42 seconds after detections. These notifications constitute the first ever transmission of wild tiger detections using embedded AI. The ‘AI’ element, or ‘embedded AI’ as it is technically known, in this system is that instead of transmitting every image captured, the camera only sends pictures of interest to forest officials.

Source: The Hindu September 16, 2023 20:15 UTC