Nashik: The forest division in Ahilyanagar district put in an AI-powered digicam system in Kamargaon village after leopards claimed over 20 lives this calendar yr. The system raises an alarm if a leopard enters a 100m radius of the solar-powered cameras, enabling villagers to take rapid security measures.In line with deputy conservator of forests Dharmveer Salvitthal, “This is without doubt one of the 100 AI-powered, photo voltaic energy-driven cameras with 360° surveillance functionality that has been put in within the Kamargaon village of the district.”The system incorporates superior laptop imaginative and prescient and deep studying to tell apart leopards from different animals.“Even when an A4-sized image of a leopard is introduced in entrance of the digicam, it raises an alarm, however doesn’t confuse between leopards and different animals as a result of it’s AI-powered. The assessments carried out through the day and night time have been profitable, and we at the moment are putting in such cameras throughout the district — on precedence within the villages which have a historical past of the massive cats being noticed,” mentioned Salviththal.The district planning committee funded the venture, prompting the forest division to deploy the units. “Name ‘AI Wild Netra’, it at present raises an alarm that alerts individuals round concerning the presence of the leopard. We’re additionally planning to combine the system with the features so that it’s going to ship SMSes to a choose variety of telephones that can embody the essential individuals from the villages and officers,” mentioned the officer.To be able to scale back human-leopard battle, district guardian minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil supplied emergency funds by means of the planning funds and introduced rescue vans sanctioned by the district planning committee to forest division workers at Nilwande. A complete of 14 rescue vans have been sanctioned within the monetary yr 2025-26.
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