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A "web of lasers" on the border

Anand Parthasarathy

Sends their plan to DRDO for evaluation

Bangalore: Living in a State that has a long international border tends to exert an influence on creativity.

For three information technology students in Jaipur, it provided the stimulus to try and see how high-tech tools, hardware and software, could be married to create an all-electronic "smart" system to monitor movements across Rajasthan's western border areas.

Abhinav Khandelwal, Abhishek Sharma and Sourabh Nirmal — all students of the Sitapura, Jaipur-based Global Institute of Technology, affiliated to Rajasthan University, have created a scaled-down working model of what they call Artificial Intelligence Military Support (AIMS). It moots a web of lasers to detect intrusion or movement across the border, an artificial intelligence expert system to suggest the appropriate response, including the deployment of weapons, and a "strategy maker" based on human nerve-like neural networks to help make an instantaneous decision on the next course of action.

The students were guided by Prakash Ramani, the head of the institute's IT department and received practical help from Tarun Shrivastava of the the local Tishitu Electronics. They turned to Microsoft to get an e-Box II, a small appliance that runs "lean, mean" embedded software applications under the Internet and the Windows CE environment, and made it the heart of their system. They have submitted details of their work to the Defence Research and Development Organisation for evaluation and feedback.

Rajasthan has joined hands with Microsoft to help create an IT Academy in Jaipur to train 800 teachers and 4 lakh students over the next five years.

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