Tamil Nadu plans its first artificial intelligence (AI)-based early warning system to prevent wild elephants from getting hit by trains on railway lines.
It is laid along the Ettimadai–Walayar section, which links Tamil Nadu and Kerala, is nearing completion.
It will give an additional layer of protection for pachyderms.
The installation of all 12 e-surveillance towers for the project — five along the ‘A’ line and seven along the ‘B’ line, of the twin single line — has been completed.
A total of 11 elephants were killed in six train collisions on the two railway lines linking Coimbatore and Palakkad from 2008 to 2022.