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AI-Powered Solutions for Wildlife Protection and Bio-Diversity Monitoring

Indigenously developed preventive system for real-time anomaly detection in the forest environment, harnessed by VEGA AT1051 Processor from CDAC.

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ROAR acoustic sensing device
ROAR device in the field

Poaching and deforestation outpace traditional surveillance

Camera traps miss what they can't see. Patrols can't cover every hectare. By the time a threat is spotted, the damage is often already done — forests need eyes and ears that never sleep.

21.76%

of India's land is forest cover — but dense forest is shrinking

Source: Forest Survey of India, ISFR 2023

110

tigers poached in a single year, out of a population of ~3,167

Source: Wildlife Protection Society of India

1,652

wildlife-crime seizures in 2024, 40% involving threatened species

Source: Wildlife Crime Control Bureau

Why traditional methods fall short

Visual Blind Spots

Camera traps and drones are easily blocked by thick canopies, undergrowth, and darkness.

Delayed Response

Understaffed foot patrols often find evidence days after an incident occurs.

High Power & Data Drain

Streaming video requires heavy bandwidth and massive batteries, which fail in off-grid environments.

What we do

Our acoustic detection pipeline — built to notice what cameras can't.

360° Omnidirectional Range

Sound cuts through dense foliage and total darkness, letting a single node secure a massive radius.

Instant Gunshot Classification

Microphones feed edge-optimized hardware that runs rapid pre-processing, then instantly classifies critical threats like gunshots.

Future-Proof Machine Learning

The architecture is scalable by design, making it easy to train and add more acoustic classes to the classifier later on.

Smart Offline Logging

Bypasses connectivity blackouts by logging heavy audio on-device while instantly sending lightweight, text-based LoRA alerts to rangers.

Why us

360° coverage

Omnidirectional listening from a single node.

Ultra-low power

Months of field deployment on a single charge.

Real-time on-device

No cloud dependency, no latency.

Made in India

Designed and built indigenously at IISc, on CDAC's VEGA processor.

Incubated & supported by

IIScNeuRonICS LabCDAC

Mentored by Prof. Chetan Singh Thakur — NeuRonICS Lab, IISc

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