Sensonic, a subsidiary of Frauscher, has won a contract to implement an elephant detection system for Indian state railway IR's East Coast network. The system is based on fibre optic and AI sensor technology to protect endangered elephants and train operations on 30 elephant corridors along 400 km of railway track. The innovative "Gajraj" system uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) to detect elephant footsteps near the rails and sends alerts to railway staff to avoid collisions. The contract covers the installation of sensor units on 1,200 km of optical fibre on IRs' east coast network in the states of Orissa and Jharkhand. This includes the installation of 20 strategically positioned sensing units along with supporting equipment that enable real-time monitoring, data analysis, and alerts.
