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Solutions introduced
to HEC at Valparai,
South India
I. Cable TV
II. Bulk SMS
• Inform to base station
• Confirmation and
identification of Human
settlement areas
• Analyze vulnerable zone
• Select mobile numbers from
the DB
• Send early warning
messages
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Solutions introduced
to HEC at Valparai,
South India
I. Cable TV
II. Bulk SMS
III. Flashing light warning system
• Using SIM card
• 3 registered numbers
• 3 rings to activate the light
9. 9
Actions taken to mitigate HEC
1) Traditional and most common methods
2) Simple IT related solutions
3) Advance IT related solutions
• Smart electric fence
• Infrasonic sound
- Greeting
- Normal gossip & how those impact to our lives
- Actor's death
- K. D. Harichchandra's death
- Location and cause of the death
- Does audience aware about HEC?
- Real topic
- Explain why came up with suicide incident
- Medea's job with statistics
- Deaths because of HEC is not neglegible
- Not only human, elephant deaths also counts
- Importancy of having elephants
- - 1986 IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
- - Part of our lifecycle
- How big HEC issue in Sri Lanka
- Tell about other damages
- - Physical
- - Houses
- - Crops
- - Forests
- Compensation
- - Rs. 500,000 -> Death/House
- - Rs. 75,000 -> Injury
- - Rs. 0 -> Crops
- From Elephants POV
- Pros & cons of these methods
- Project location
- People 70,000 elephants 80 - 100
- 39 killed before project stated
- People came 120 years back
- Before that Rain forest
- Now tea & coffee plantation estate
- Forest remains as small fragments
- Day time elephants lives in
- Night time they move from one fragment to other
- People using the same path
- 35 out of 39 are not aware
- Lack of info about Elephants presence
- Everyday 5.30 displaying a croll
- Method was good until Satellite TV came
- Same time mobile phone usage got increased
- 55000 out of 70000 were using mobile phones
- Bulk SMS as new option
- Service provider -> Gupshop
- Cost per SMS -> Rs. 0.02
- Reach -> Limitless
- Delivery time -> Instant
- Text languages -> English and Tamil
- Explain the process of bulk SMS
- When no network and network failure scenario
- 25 units, highly visible, top of a tower
- Red light indicates Elephants are with in 1 km
- Explain the process
- Mention about limited time for this presentation
- Abstract of a abstract of a thesis
- Some audience fond of R & D
- Give credits to;
- - Dr. Kasun de Zoysa (UCSC)
- - Dr. Shermin de Silva
- - Asanka (UCSC)
- Explain smart electric fence
- - IoT items communicating
- Explain Infrasonic sound
- - Find location and communicating
- Capture images using DSLR camera and upload
- Server side API to do Image processing
- Implement tools that can be used in field visit like low cost drone camera
- Influence directors to do no profit no branding social work
- Only thing we need is willingness to do