International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering & Technology (IJECET), ISSN 0976 – 6464(Print), ISSN 0976 – 6472(Online), Volume 6, Issue 1, January (2015), pp. 17-22 © IAEME 17 AUTOMATED ELEPHANT TRACKER Avirup Basu Electronics and Communication engineering, Siliguri Institute of Technology, Sukna, India, Aritro Mukherjee Electrical engineering, Siliguri Institute of Technology, Sukna, India, ABSTRACT In recent days the collisions between wildlife and railway have increased causing a very vital loss to the fauna. There have been huge numbers of deaths of elephants while crossing the railway tracks and the deaths have increased in the recent days and it has caused a serious problem. The main cause of death is there are no early warning systems which can give an early information regarding their location. Thus our main objective will be to provide an early warning system to the railway department so they can act accordingly. Our automated elephant tracker is a system developed with a motive of saving this elephants and to provide an early warning regarding their location. It consists of a manual bot capable of running on rough terrains. It tracks a fixed area but at the same time can also be manually controlled according to the circumstances. It has a wireless camera mounted on it which leads visualization of the elephants and provides early information to the base station regarding the locations and detections of this elephants. The main job of the base station is to control our elephant tracker and at the same time to process the signal to detect the location of elephant. Accordingly it sends the information to the railway authorities to take according steps. Which can minimize the collision and ensure the safety of the elephants and railway system . Keywords: Aforge, Arduino, C#, Euclidean, WPF. 1. INTRODUCTION Automated elephant tracker is a system developed with the motive to save elephants from deaths by speeding trains. The system is developed by incorporating 3 major systems. 1.1: Manual + Autonomous bot A manual bot named Black etrack v1.0.0.1 will compose the first major part of the system. The manual bot can move through rugged terrains near a railway track. It has two modes of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY (IJECET) ISSN 0976 – 6464(Print) ISSN 0976 – 6472(Online) Volume 6, Issue 1, January (2015), pp. 17-22 © IAEME: http://www.iaeme.com/IJECET.asp Journal Impact Factor (2014): 7.2836 (Calculated by GISI) www.jifactor.com IJECET © I A E M E