A Little Ingenuity Solves an Elephant-Sized Problem

Author

Byrd, Greg

Author_Institution

North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

Volume

48

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Apr. 2015

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

77

Abstract

A student team from NC State has designed a collar to help control wild elephants that threaten human property and life in Africa and Asia. The Web extra at https://youtu.be/aQV_BkOL4vA is a video showing how students from North Carolina State University designed a collar to keep elephants away from farms and villages. In this field test in South Africa, a buzzing sound from the collar causes an elephant to turn away from the protected area. Video by Emma Besaw. The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/ap1dSwCc6fY is a video in which editor Greg Byrd introduces the new Student Design Showcase column, dedicated to innovative, interesting student projects from computer science and engineering.

Keywords

Web sites; environmental science computing; Africa; Asia; NC State; North Carolina State University; South Africa; Student Design Showcase column; Web extra; buzzing sound; collar; computer science and engineering; elephant-sized problem; human property; student projects; wild elephant control; Animals; Base stations; Batteries; Global Positioning System; Human factors; Project management; Research and development; Adventures with Elephants; NC State TECS/ECE; human-elephant interactions; project management; software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2015.94

Filename

7085945