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The human-elephant conflict is a key problem in forest border areas that ways agriculture damage, human, and elephant loss. As a solution to HEC, an early warning is provided to humans as an alert or to raid the elephants back to the forest. To detect the elephant intrusion, a geophone seismic vibration sensor is used in this work. As the forest border is prone to get rain frequently, the sensitivity of geophone output can be affected and may not detect the vibration due to the dampness in the soil. To improve the performance, the sensing system is designed to adapt variable soil conditions and thereby adjusts the level of threshold as per the noise variance influenced by the ground sources at the geophone output. We explored the variance in the spectral parameters and the signal strength of the elephant foot fall signal and arrived at a design as solution to avoid problems related to the noise and variable soil circumstances.
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Sugumar, S.J., Jeevalakshmi, D., Shreyas, S., Vishnu, R., Suryakotikiran, M.S., Kushalappa, B. (2022). Analysis and Testing of Geophone for Different Soil Conditions for Elephant Intrusion Detection. In: Saini, H.S., Singh, R.K., Tariq Beg, M., Mulaveesala, R., Mahmood, M.R. (eds) Innovations in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 355. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8512-5_17
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