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Ground Vibration-Based Animal Repellent System
No. of units made: 15
Funded by: NBNP, DST SERB
Presently used/installed: At Anaikatti (10 Units) and Bhavanisagar (5 Units)
Cost: A customized designed
Long Range LASER Based Elephant Early Warning System
No. of units made: 45
Funded by: IEF (USA), Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Karnataka Forest Department
Presently used/installed: 32 units at Sathyamangalam tiger reserve, 4 units at BRT Tiger Reserve, 6 Units at Jhalda Division Purulia (WB), 3 units at Anaikatti. Maintained by the forest department, partner NGOs, and our group.
Cost: A customized design (a basic unit 18k to 20k)
Anti Crop Raiding Acoustic Gun
No. of units made: 15
Funded by: NBNP, DST SERB
Presently used/installed: At Anaikatti (10 Units) and Bhavanisagar (5 Units)
Cost: A customized designed
The Ground Vibration-Based Animal Repellent System is an out and out indigenous system which detects and identify animal based on its footsteps vibration and immediately switches on high volume hotter to repel intruding animals. It uses an especial common vibration rejection technique to avoid any manmade or natural noise vibrations. It’s a night mode system and has shown excellent results against wild animals, including elephants.
Detection: A fully automated LASER fence with transmitter and receiver separation 200m+. Elephant movement is tracked down when it crosses the fence. The fence doesn’t create any obstruction to elephant movement only detects its movement.
Identification: Identification is based on two parameters ‘Elephant Height’ and ‘Activation Time’. LASER light is fixed at 1.8m (average height of an Elephant) and added with a contentious line blockage time of 5sec (activation time which elephant takes to cross the line and it's experimentally verified)
Early Warning: On valid detection system sends location-specific SMS to pre-saved mobile numbers of nearby farmers and forest officials. The local flashlight also activated to warn villagers and also to distract the elephant for time being. An SMS-based buzzer is also kept to the forest office and nearby farmer’s house as an add-on alert in case SMS is un-noticed.
It’s a handy fully automated, pocket-friendly, two-hooters-based design that creates more than 230 dB (one hooter 110dB and the second one 120dB). It can be operated with multiple sound-emitting modes with an RF remote from a distance of 40m to scare off elephants.
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Road-kill Prevention System
No. of units made: 6
Funded by: Rufford,UK and WTI, India
Presently used/installed: Two units at Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve Bhavani Sagar and 4 units at Punjur, BRT Tiger reserve. Maintained by WTI and our group.
Cost: A customized designed
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Personal Safety Acoustic Device
No. of units made: 30
Funded by: Forest department and Individual consultancy
Presently used/installed: 10 Sathyamangalam Forest Department, 2 BRT TR, 2 WBFD, 2 Kerala FD, and 14 to NGOs & local farmers.
Cost: 4.7k with GST
Personal Safety Sparking Device
No. of units made: 5
Funded by: Forest department
Presently used/installed: At Sathyamangalam (3 Units) and West Bengal (2 Units)
Cost: 4k with GST
It’s a truly indigenous Visible LASER or Invisible LASER-based optical fence system to provide safe road crossing for wild animals from vehicular traffic. When the laser line gets blocked for a certain duration (‘Activation Time’) by a road crossing animal, it triggers a Traffic Light Alarm at a certain distance via a wireless signal. A single unit can cover a 200m distance for visible LASER and 70m for invisible LASER. Multiple units can be connected as an optical fence chain which will work in relay mode to cover a long distance. The ‘Activation Time’ based approach will allow the system to avoid any false detection due to falling leaf, flying birds, etc. The ‘Activation Time’ and multiple LASER lines will give a rough estimation of the type and numbers of animals which will be helpful in framing different light alert patterns at Traffic Light Alert for the approaching vehicles.
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The „Personal Safety Acoustic Device‟ is having following features; A torch light, 110dB high volume Hooter with dabble switch, solder slingers to carry, 12V 2.5 ah battery, net weight 1.7kg, a metal handle to operate, a 12 volt battery charger, a battery backup of 100 times sound (5 sec each) etc.
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It's creating noisy electric spark to scare away elephants and other animals. It's pocket friendly and a highly useful noncontact birds, elephant and other crop raiding animals drive tool. Once charged, it can be operated for days. Both 5v and 12v modules are available.
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Anti Crop Raiding Flash Light
No. of units made: 3
Funded by: Individuals
Presently used/installed: At Talabadi, Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve
Cost: 2.5k with GST
Artificial Honey Bee Elephant Repeller
No. of units made: 2
Funded by: Individual consultancy
Presently used/installed: 1 unit at Talabari farm land.
Cost: 3k with GST
Hand Held Cracker Shots Launcher
No. of units made: 3
Funded by: Forest department
Presently used/installed: Wayanand Kerala (1 unit), Sathyamangalam (2 Units)
Cost: 2.5k with GST
It is designed to drive away small wild animals to save crops. Its auto on/off night-based 12v DC system also can be operated to 220v ac supply with adoptor. It's having three modes of operation.
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It's a waterproof, compact & light weight, low cost, easy-to-fix Artificial Honey Bee Animal Repellent system. All the animals including elephants are afraid of the honey bee. Live beehive fences are used at many places by farmers to repel a wild elephant this is its artificial equivalent.
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Handheld Cracker Shots Launcher. The first electronic cracker-based tool to drive away elephants. It can fire 6 medium size cracker shots at a time. It's a safe waterproof and fireproof design. It's a pocket-friendly easy to use elephant and crop-raiding animal drive tool.
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Electric Spark Animal Repellent
No. of units made: 2
Funded by: Individuals
Presently used/installed: at Anaikatti
Cost: 1.8k with GST
Long Range RF Switch Operated Cracker Shots Launchers
No. of units made: 3
Funded by: Individual consultancy
Presently used/installed: 1 is used by farmers at Talabari and another by farmers of Bhavabisagar.
Cost: 5k with GST
Soil Water Tension Recorder
No. of units made: 16
Funded by: FERAL
Presently used/installed: Ooty mountains (15 Units)
Cost: 10k with GST
It's a 12V automatic Electric Spark Animal Repellent Device. It will generate flashy noisy electric spark during the entire night with some time gap to keep the intruding wild animals away. It will not cause any harm to the animal even if accidentally touched also. It's small compact pocket-friendly easy to install. It's specially designed for the farmers to avoid animal crop raiding.
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This effective indigenous system provides effective, targeted, and safe firepower to the farmers and forest guards for driving away elephants by using market-available crackers shots. It can be interfaced with Elephant Early Warning fence and also can be operated manually with a remote RF switch
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Under the context of ever-shrinking groundwater resources, fast and accurate measurement of soil moisture or soil water tension is highly important for ensuring a healthy sustainable environment. Considering such importance, our, Soil Water Tension Recorder (SETR) system is indigenously designed to record soil moisture continuously over months. The complete system is attached with a solar panel battery and data is saved in detachable memory card.