EcoNova AI
AI-powered biodiversity and threat detection system for smarter, safer ecosystems 🌿🤖
Created on 13th April 2025
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EcoNova AI
AI-powered biodiversity and threat detection system for smarter, safer ecosystems 🌿🤖
The problem EcoNova AI solves
EcoNova addresses critical gaps in wildlife conservation, disaster management, and environmental surveillance by providing a real-time, intelligent monitoring system. Using AI-powered object detection, species classification, and threat assessment, it automates the process of identifying wildlife, fires, and human threats like poaching and weapons. The system generates actionable reports with natural language summaries, reducing human workload and improving response times in remote or high-risk regions.
Challenges we ran into
One major challenge was optimizing the YOLOv8 model for real-time inference on limited hardware while ensuring accurate multi-class detection. Tuning the model and preprocessing pipeline using OpenCV and threading helped reduce bottlenecks. Another issue was implementing Generative AI summaries that maintained relevance across diverse detection contexts; integrating prompt tuning with a lightweight GenAI model from Hugging Face made this feasible. Ensuring modularity and hardware-independence was a learning curve, but a layered architecture solved that.
Technologies used