Welcome to the ELE-SCENT Official Public Repository!
- We are a multidisciplinary team of engineering students, wildlife enthusiasts, and researchers working on AI-powered solutions for elephant conservation. Our flagship project, ELE-SCENT, is an innovative system designed to detect and monitor wild elephants using odor signatures, IoT, and embedded AI.
- Visit Our Official Web Page: https://elescentousl.pages.dev/
- Goal: To reduce human-elephant conflicts (HEC) and accidental deaths (e.g., train collisions) by providing early detection and alert systems.
- Core Technology: A multi-sensor gas array combined with machine learning models that recognize volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by elephants.
- Unique Feature: A non-visual, camera-free detection approach that is resilient to poor visibility, weather, and low-light conditions.
To create an AI-powered, low-cost, and scalable solution that protects elephants and humans by enabling real-time, non-invasive wildlife monitoring.
- Develop and deploy VOC-based elephant detection systems using IoT and machine learning.
- Provide real-time alerts to wildlife officials and villagers in conflict zones.
- Contribute to conservation research by collecting elephant odor datasets for future ecological studies.
Our puervisor and valuable domain experts involved in the projects
- Supervisor: Mr. Saliya Wickramasinghe
- Collaborators:
- Prof. Saminda Fernanfo (Department of Zoology, The Open University of Sri Lanka)
- Dr. Gayan Illeperuma (Department of Physics, The Open University of Sri Lanka)
We are a group of 5 members with expertise in software engineering, embedded systems, UI/UX design, and wildlife research:
- Akila Wanninayake – Project Lead / Research and Development, Architecture and ML
- Bhanuka Chathuranga – Backend, Data Processing
- Sampath Dissanayake – IoT & Device Firmware
- Piyumi Paranavithanage – UI/UX & Frontend
- Kaushika Weerakoon – Testing, Deployment & Documentation
We welcome collaboration and input from:
- Wildlife conservationists
- Electronics engineers
- AI/ML researchers
- Software developers
If you have ideas or want to contribute, please reach out to us via email: elescentproject@gmail.com.
Find us on : https://elescentousl.pages.dev/
This is an academic and research project. © 2025 ELE-SCENT Team. All rights reserved.