Sensor-Based Monitoring System

• 🕑 Around 2:00 am
  
• 🎑 In a dark forest

• 🐘 A herd of elephants were crossing the railway track

• 🚆 Suddenly, a train rushing at a speed of over 80 km/hr comes that way

• 🟠 An orange light flashes up immediately, signalling the elephant movement on the track.

• 🔊 Immediately, the loco pilot understands that he must slow down the train, 

• 🛤️ As he comes closer, he also starts honking so that the elephants move back into the forests, making way for the moving train.

• 💡 This scenario was not a possibility until very recently.
  
  

❓Do you know what had happened due to the lack of such a system?

• 2️⃣6️⃣th November 2021

• 🐘 Three elephants-a (male), a female and a calf

• 🐾 While the calf playfully placed itself on the track
  
• 🐘 The male stood beside, and the female was trying to get the calf off the track

• 🚆 A Chennai-bound train unfortunately crashed into them and we couldn’t save any.
  
  

How can such tragedies be avoided?

• 🖲️ Sensor-based monitoring system has the potential to save many lives in such scenarios.

• ⚠️ By employing sensors that trigger lights along train tracks,

• 🧑‍✈️ We can have one kilometer of buffer for the loco pilot to get an intimation.

• 🤍 This will help trains to slow down along animal habitats, further saving the lives of such innocent elephants.