Indian Railways' AI-enabled Intrusion Detection System (IDS); Designed to Generate Alerts for Loco Pilots, Station Masters and Control Room to Prevent Death of Elephants on Railway Tracks Using Distributed Acoustic Sensors (DAS)

India, Feb. 4 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

The Ministry of Railways, in coordination with Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, has taken several protection measures to prevent elephant hitting on railway tracks, which are as under:

(i) One of the innovative measures taken is development of AI-enabled Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for detecting presence of elephants on Railway tracks using Distributed Acoustic Sensors (DAS). The system components include Optical Fibre, hardware and pre-installed signatures of elephant locomotion. The system is designed to generate alerts for loco pilots, station masters and Control Room about the movement of elephants in proximity of railway tracks, for taking timely pre...