Title :
Towards prevention of collision of elephants with trains
Author :
Kawdia, Ashish ; Dixit, Sameer ; Deb, Dipankar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biotechnol., Indian Inst. of Technol., Guwahati, India
Abstract :
In this paper a new concept is explored to develop a technology for prevention of elephant deaths from collisions due to incoming trains. The innate fear of bees in the Elephants and the detection of the self emanating natural alarm signal generated by an Elephant to warn other Elephants from potential danger, are utilized in this new technology. Two different techniques of deployment of the proposed device is presented that details possible ways for maximization of the propagation of an infrasound alarm signal.
Keywords :
acoustic signal processing; acoustic wave propagation; alarm systems; biology computing; zoology; bees; elephant collision; elephant deaths; infrasound alarm signal propagation; maximization; self-emanating natural alarm signal generation; trains; Auditory system; Axles; Ear; Humans; Rail transportation; Tracking; Wheels; Doppler´s effect; Elephant alarm signals; Infrasound; Rayleigh waves; Sound propagation;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Kolkata
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1098-8
DOI :
10.1109/AEMC.2011.6256923
