it’s a war zone at this point the value
of a rhino horn is worth more than ten
times the value of the Rhino alive
poachers are coming in they’re
well-armed most of them are coming in
teams now and they come in with assault
rifles and they don’t have the law
holding them back there’s not a lot of
Technology Solutions or barriers for the
poachers so our goal really is focusing
on stopping it before it actually
happens the wildlife conservation UAV
Chandra is the challenge that is created
to motivate and inspire people from
around the world to create a unmanned
aerial vehicle that would be used for
counter poaching purposes
137 teams in 29 different countries on
six continents saying yes we want to be
a part of this initiative we want to
help find a solution the idea behind
using a drone for counter poaching is to
get out there and try to detect the
poachers before they get to the animals
with a UAV you can actually cover a half
a day’s worth of walking within a matter
of minutes it’s not about making a great
aircraft it’s about being able to
process that data on board and that’s
where the new sensors and the little
tiny computers and the chips become
exciting if there are poachers in the
park how many are they where are they
located what types of weapons are they
carrying what’s their proximity to the
animals and also what’s the best route
for a ranger to go there and stop the
poachers by being involved in this
challenge we’re hoping to push this
technology to the limit 3d printing
allows us design platforms that are very
quick and easy to produce and the great
thing about using a smart phone is that
it has a number of built-in sensors
already Bluetooth Wi-Fi has LTE
communications but the thing that we
leverage the most is the camera and the
processing power where we are now is
we’ve developed a 3d printed plane we’ve
developed the apps that run on the phone
and we’ve got the sensors that we want
to put on the system all that remains at
this point is to bring it all together
put it up in the air
and make sure that it does what we hope
it does
from the perspective of why we started
the challenge I’d like to see the rhino
poaching numbers go down drastically and
then from the point of technology we
really hope that people are going to
start seeing that a challenge can be a
great way of motivating people if we
have technology we can use it to protect
the world we live in
of a rhino horn is worth more than ten
times the value of the Rhino alive
poachers are coming in they’re
well-armed most of them are coming in
teams now and they come in with assault
rifles and they don’t have the law
holding them back there’s not a lot of
Technology Solutions or barriers for the
poachers so our goal really is focusing
on stopping it before it actually
happens the wildlife conservation UAV
Chandra is the challenge that is created
to motivate and inspire people from
around the world to create a unmanned
aerial vehicle that would be used for
counter poaching purposes
137 teams in 29 different countries on
six continents saying yes we want to be
a part of this initiative we want to
help find a solution the idea behind
using a drone for counter poaching is to
get out there and try to detect the
poachers before they get to the animals
with a UAV you can actually cover a half
a day’s worth of walking within a matter
of minutes it’s not about making a great
aircraft it’s about being able to
process that data on board and that’s
where the new sensors and the little
tiny computers and the chips become
exciting if there are poachers in the
park how many are they where are they
located what types of weapons are they
carrying what’s their proximity to the
animals and also what’s the best route
for a ranger to go there and stop the
poachers by being involved in this
challenge we’re hoping to push this
technology to the limit 3d printing
allows us design platforms that are very
quick and easy to produce and the great
thing about using a smart phone is that
it has a number of built-in sensors
already Bluetooth Wi-Fi has LTE
communications but the thing that we
leverage the most is the camera and the
processing power where we are now is
we’ve developed a 3d printed plane we’ve
developed the apps that run on the phone
and we’ve got the sensors that we want
to put on the system all that remains at
this point is to bring it all together
put it up in the air
and make sure that it does what we hope
it does
from the perspective of why we started
the challenge I’d like to see the rhino
poaching numbers go down drastically and
then from the point of technology we
really hope that people are going to
start seeing that a challenge can be a
great way of motivating people if we
have technology we can use it to protect
the world we live in
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