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Colleen Glaeser is the Global Marketing
Director for AxxonSoft, one of the largest
tech security companies in the world.
She is also the owner of South African
luxury safari lodge, Karkloof Safari Villas
and has seen first hand the carnage
rhino and elephant poaching can have.
She has innovatively combined both
AxxonSoft and Karkloof to combat this
physical security threat.
“The technology utilises the latest
surveillance and security solutions,
which incorporates Deep Learning,
which is a method under Artificial
Intelligence (AI). This technology has
been adapted to tell the difference
between humans and animals.
“Prior to the incorporation of Deep
Learning in anti-poaching surveillance,
software often failed control rooms and
response units in that false alarms were,
on many occasions, set off by animals,
insects and weather. Control rooms were
not able to tell the difference between
an actual threat and a false alarm, which
often resulted in exhausting resources
as teams were dispatched for animals
who had touched the fence while grazing
in their natural habitat.
“AxxonSoft’s Deep Learning solution
now alerts the operators in the control
room to an immediate poaching threat
as poachers try and breach the fence
perimeter to enter the reserve or park.”
Taking around six months to rollout and
implement, the technology has been
widely received.
“There are rangers on the ground, but
they can’t be everywhere especially
when you’re dealing with 2,000 acres,”
said Glaeser.
“And then you have another complication
where the animals might bump the fence
and set off an alarm that the electric
fence is being disturbed.
Colleen Glaeser, Global Marketing Director
at AxxonSoft
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“However now, if an alarm goes off, it will
only pick up a human and not an animal.
We’ve had extremely good success
with some arrests being made. The
rangers feel more equipped because
they know where to go and it won’t be a
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false alarm. You want to see what type
of ammunition people are carrying and
what type of arms. And that can only be
done through surveillance.
“The technology has really been grasped
by farm and park owners and we’re
currently in negotiations with some
of the major parks to deploy this type
of surveillance. In the past, they had
nowhere to go and didn’t know what
they were dealing with. Poachers come
well-armed and with a lot of technology
behind them, like drones they can
access, whereas the park owners don’t
have as much to combat it. So, this
technology really helps.
“It provides a proactive solution to
surveillance whereas previous systems
were somewhat archaic and reactive in
their response to real threats. Our Deep
Learning technology has been extremely
successful thus far in telling the
difference between animals and humans.
“AxxonSoft has developed a process
for adapting neural network filters to
AxxonSoft’s Deep
Learning solution
now alerts the
operators in the
control room to
an immediate
poaching threat.
the needs of a specific site. The neural
network learns to perform customer-
specific tasks from video material
obtained at the site, which guarantees
high-quality results. To resolve issues of
high resource consumption related to
AI, AxxonSoft uses a blended approach
with a neural network filter applied to an
object tracker — the filter can identify
a specific type of moving objects or
abandoned items.”
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