Charisa Bossinakis

Published 7:26, 29 August 2022 at BST
| Last updated 7:26, 29 August 2022 at BSThttps://www.unilad.com/technology/teen-invents-device-to-track-elephant-poachers-in-real-time-20220829

A 17-year-oldhas invented alow-costway to trackelephant poachersin real time.

High school studentAnikaPurihas created amachine-learning-drivenmodel observing the movement patterns of humans and elephants, according toBusinessNews.

And to think, when I was 17, I thought ludicrous was spelt like the rapper, but it’s good to know the future is in the hands of sometech-savvyteens.

While drones are mostly used to detectelephant poachers,Anikasays these devices can be inaccurate, which is what prompted her to inventElSa(short for elephant saviour).

According toAnika,ElSais four times more effective than drones as the technology can analyse movement patterns in thermal infrared videos of humans and elephants.

“I realised that we could use this disparity between these two movement patterns in order to actually increase the detection accuracy of potential poachers,” the New York native said.

But not only…