Indian Railways' AI-enabled Intrusion Detection System (IDS); Designed to Generate Alerts for Loco Pilots, Station Masters and Control Room to Prevent Death of Elephants on Railway Tracks Using Distributed Acoustic Senso...

• AI-enabled Intrusion Detection System (IDS) uses Distributed Acoustic Sensors (DAS) along railway optical fibre to detect elephant movement near tracks and alert loco pilots, station masters and Control Rooms.
• Joint initiative of Ministry of Railways with Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) to curb elephant-train collisions.
• Relevant for UPSC at the intersection of infrastructure, biodiversity conservation, AI governance, and human-wildlife conflict mitigation.