COUNTRY FOCUS: SOUTH AFRICA
Taking around six months to rollout and
implement, the technology has been
widely received.
“There are rangers on the ground, but they
can’t be everywhere especially when you’re
dealing with 2,000 acres,” said Glaeser.
“And then you have another complication
where the animals might bump the fence
and set off an alarm that the electric fence is
being disturbed.
“However now, if an alarm goes off, it will
only pick up a human and not an animal.
We’ve had extremely good success with
some arrests being made. The rangers feel
more equipped because they know where to
go and it won’t be a false alarm. You want
to see what type of ammunition people are
carrying and what type of arms. And that
can only done through surveillance.
“The technology has really been grasped by
farm and park owners and we’re currently in
negotiations with some of the major parks
to deploy this type of surveillance. In the
past, they had nowhere to go and didn’t
know what they were dealing with.
“Poachers come well-armed and with a lot
of technology behind them, like drones
they can access, whereas the park owners
don’t have as much to combat it. So, this
technology really helps.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Colleen Glaeser is the Global Marketing
Director for AxxonSoft
“It provides a proactive solution to
surveillance whereas previous systems were
somewhat archaic and reactive in their
response to real threats. Our Deep Learning
technology has been extremely successful
thus far in telling the difference between
animals and humans.
“AxxonSoft has developed a process for
adapting neural network filters to the
needs of a specific site. The neural network
learns to perform customer-specific tasks
from video material obtained at the site,
which guarantees high-quality results. To
resolve issues of high resource consumption
related to AI, AxxonSoft uses a blended
approach with a neural network filter
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