The Forest department has installed an Artificial Intelligence-enabled surveillance camera system at Anakkulam, under the Mankulam forest division in Idukki, to provide imagery of herds of wild elephant reaching the famed waterhole here.
According to officials, live images from the spot will be made available to tourists through a Telegram channel named ‘Anakkulam Elephant Oru’. The Mankulam forest division has implemented the project in association with Government Engineering College, Idukki.
S. Santhosh Kumar, faculty at the college who led the project, said that the images will be available within 30 seconds to one minute of it being clicked.
