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The objective of this paper is to present several modern technologies being developed and used to prevent poaching of endangered wildlife species in different parts of the world. A study has been performed on the various categories of technological components used to develop instruments that tackle poaching. Our paper explores different projects and systems that prevent the loss of lives of wildlife and/or alerting concerned authorities when the animals might be in danger, so that necessary action and precaution can be taken on time and the poacher can be seized. We also try to provide statistical information related to the rate of poaching of certain endangered species around the world. Finally, a new sensor-based system has been proposed taking into consideration all the advantages as well as the limitations encountered in the existing projects.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) such as a drone have a ground-based controller from where operation instructions are given to the vehicle.
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Zigbee is a technological protocol that was developed to address the requirements of low-cost, low-power wireless IoT networks [5].
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MATLAB is a software that is used for computing complex numerical problems or for processing and analysis of data.
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Faster RCNN is an object detection architecture using CNN algorithms [13].
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Hegde, K., Sen, S. (2022). IoT-Based Anti-poaching Technology to Save Wildlife. In: Mandal, J.K., Buyya, R., De, D. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Computing Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1406. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5207-3_4
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