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The wildlife officials have found the TrailGuard AI camera-alert system very useful in the Kanha-Pench corridor in Madhya Pradesh.

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• These cameras are thin and can be discreetly placed in trees.
• They look like a pen, measuring 13.8 cm long and 1.4 cm wide. They are connected to another unit, about the size of a notepad.
• These cameras have special software that can be told to take pictures of specific animals or people.
• They are really small, about the size of a person's index finger when you consider the camera head and the infrared sensor.
• You can set them to capture specific things like humans or certain animals like lions, tigers, or cheetahs.
• If the camera is near a cellphone tower, it can send pictures in just 30 seconds. If it's far from a tower, it might take 3-10 minutes using a longer method.
• The 'AI' part of this system means that it doesn't send every picture it takes. Instead, it only sends pictures that are interesting to the forest officials.
• This camera was created by RESOLVE, a non-profit organization. The brain of this camera is Intel's Myriad chip.