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Research Summary

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R&D Projects (Ongoing and Completed)

 

  1. Title of the project: "Prototype Development and Field Trial of Body Heat Operated Wearable Mini Torch Light for Rural Area"                       PI: Dr. Sanjoy Deb, Co-PI: Mr. Ramkumar R and Mis.Shree Tharanya J P, Dr. Subrata Das, TNSCST Research Grant, 4.19 lakhs, Status: Ongoing

  2. Title of the project: Prototype Design and Field Testing of an Elephant Early Warning System, PI: Dr. Sanjoy Deb, Co-PI: Mr. Ramkumar R and Mr Rajasekar DST Core Research Grant, 10 lakhs,Status: Ongoing

  3. Title of the project: Smart fence for early elephant warning: Prototype design and field implementation, International Elephant Foundation, Amount: $6400  Duration: 1 year 2017-2018  Status: Ongoing

  4. ​Title of the project: "Field Implementation and Design Up-gradation of Automated Roadkill Prevention System"  Funding Agency: Rufford Foundation, UK    Amount: £4500 (Pound)     Duration: 1 Year, 2017-2018  Status: Completed

  5. Title of the project: "Hardware Prototype Design of an Elephant Early Warning System Based on Ground Vibration"  Funding Agency: WWF India    Amount: 4.5 Lakhs (INR)     Duration: 1 Year, 2016-2017  Status: Ongoing

  6. Title of the project: "Design and Implementation of a Multiple Sensor Automated Warning System for Roadkill Prevention"   Funding Agency: Rufford Foundation, UK    Amount: £3200 (Pound)    Duration: 1.5 Year, 2015-2017  Status: Completed

  7. Title of the project: "An Experimental Study on Elephant Seismic Communication to Reduce Human Elephant Conflict"   Funding Agency: WWF India    Amount: 1.97 Lakhs (INR)     Duration: 1 Year, 2014-2015  Status: Completed

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Consultancy Projects

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  1. Title of the project: Elephant Early warning and Drive Away System   No. of Units: 6   Location: NBRP, Annaikathi, Dist. Coimbatore, TN      Amount 3.5lakhs   Status: Ongoing  

  2. Title of the project: Elephant Early Alarm System, Funding Agency: Tamilnadu Forest Department, Sathyamangalam Division, Velamundi and Karachikorai Range , TN, Amount: 3.3 lakhs, No. of Units: 15, Duration:5 Months (November-July-2020)  Status: Ongoing

  3. Title of the project: Elephant Early Warning System, Funding Agency: West Bengal Forest Department, Jhalda Division, Purulia, WB,          Amount: 5 lakhs, No. of Units: 6, Duration:4 Months (October-January-2020)

  4. Title of the project: Elephant Early Alarm System, Funding Agency: Tamilnadu Forest Department, Hasanur Division, Jiraghalli & talabadi Ranges, TN,Amount: 3.3 lakhs   No. of Units: 15,Duration:5 Months (May-September-2019)

  5. Title of the project: Prototype design of Soil moisture sensor come data logger, Funding Agency: FERAL, Puducharry, TN,Duration: 4 Months (April-July- 2019), Amount: 1.75 lakhs, No. of Units: 15

  6. Title of the project: Elephant road crossing warning system, Funding Agency: WTI, BRT TR Karnataka,Amount: 0.99 lakhs,Duration: 3 Months (March-May-2019)

  7.  Title of the project: Elephant Early Warning System,Funding Agency: Nepal Biodiversity Research and Conservation Center, Paras Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, No. of Units: 2, Duration: 2 Months (Jan-Feb-2019)

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Manpower Generated

 

  1. Name: Mr Aravindguru I    Designation: Junior Research Fellow   Research work status: Pursuing PhD (Under WWF India Consultancy Project

  2. Name: Mr Gunasekhar S        Designation: Junior Research Fellow      Research work status: Pursuing PhD (Under DST Project)

  3. Mis. Pavithra S,                      Designation: Junior Research Fellow      Research work status: Pursuing PhD (Under TNSCST Project)

 

Equipment/Component Available

With group

Apart from every general electronics component and equipment our group is also having; Geosensor, Amplifier Board, PIC Project Board, Ultrasonic Module, Pressure & temperature sensor module, P-DSLR Camera Flash Nikon D5300, LAPTOP HP 15 – AY503 Core i5 6th gen, Motion Detector, Xbee Module with Microcontroller Design, Digital Oscilloscope etc.

With Department

General: All basic electronics circuit design and testing equipments, universal FPGA Development Station with Xilinx (or) Ultra FPGA, FPGA Starter kit, Computer cum advanced simulator software HDL Synthesizer software and HDL designer Series Graphics editor, Tanner EDA Tool, Xilinx 14.2 /FPGA Kit, Mentor Graphics, Modelsim, Matlab 13, LabVIEW 2010, Comsol Multiphysics Software, Qualnet Network Simulator, Exata Emulator etc.

Specific: PI’s department (Dept. of ECE) is having MITS Eleven Lab Antenna & PCB Prototype machine (with full accessories) which will be useful in fabricating EEWS final prototype and small scale mass production of PCB units for its field implementation. Advanced DAQ card, latest LabView and MATLAB software are also available with the department which will be vital for proposed R&D.

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Publications

  1. Ramkumar. R, Boominathan D, Mohanraj, Sanjoy Deb, Design and testing of an elephant early warning system based on ground vibration, IEEE Sensors Journal (under 2nd review).

  2. News paper report, “Researchers at BIT design system to intercept elephant seismic wave”, The Hindu, 23rd July 2016

  3. Sanjoy Deb, Design and Implementation of a Multiple Sensor Automated Warning System for Roadkill Prevention, Proceeding of Rufford India Conference, Rajasthan, 23-26 April 2017

  4. Ramkumar. R, Dinesh Kumar.V, Sanjoy Deb, Designing Intruder Detection System for Intelligent Responsive Safe Environment, Journal of Electronics and Communication Systems, Journal of Electronics and Communication Systems, Volume 1 Issue 1, pp-1-8, 2016

  5. R.Ramkumar, Sanjoy Deb, Amultiple sensor automated warning systemfor roadkill prevention, ESAIJ, 11(6), pp.187-193, 2015

  6. Ramkumar R, Sanjoy Deb, Rajanna .K .M , An Automated System for Remote Elephant Tracking to Reduce Human Elephant Conflict” International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887), 2014

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Filed Patent

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1.“Automated Real Time Elephant Footsteps Detection, Identification and Warning System” by Sanjoy Deb and Ramkumar R, Application No: 201841000122

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2.“Design and Implementation of a Multiple Sensor Automated Warning System for Roadkill Prevention” by Sanjoy Deb and Ramkumar R, Application No: 201741022745     

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