2019 – Posted in: Daily News – Tags: ARDE, CDAC, gunshot detector

CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING

For: Preliminary & Mains
Topic covers: Gunfire direction tracking device, CDAC, ARDE

News Flash

Centre for Development for Advanced Computing (CDAC) is developing an advanced instrument capable of tracking the precise direction of gunfire.

Background

A pilot model of the Acoustic Gunshot Detector was developed and handed to city-based Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE), a lab of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in 2015, its advanced model with larger geographical range is currently under development.

Significance

The instrument is mainly being developed for Indian soldiers, particularly those in combat roles and operations.
It can also be deployed by various law enforcing agencies to find the location of gunfire incidents.

Acoustic Gunshot Detector

This instrument is based on the acoustics principle and is capable of filtering gunshots from all other surround sounds.
This is achieved within 20 milliseconds from the time the gunshot is fired and can reveal the direction of its origin.
The current version of the instrument offers a range of up to 300 metres. It will particularly come handy for soldiers involved in on-field operations, in combat roles or for those posted at strategic locations where exchange of gunfire and retaliatory fire are initiated while engaging with the enemy.
The team is currently developing an advanced version that will offer a range of up to 400 metres, and at the same time, efforts are on to make the instrument lighter to enable swifter mobility.

Three varients

(i) Stationary

(ii) Mobile (mounted on vehicles)

(iii) Manned (mounted on soldiers out for operations).

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

C-DAC is the premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas.

The setting up of C-DAC in 1988 itself was to built Supercomputers in context of denial of import of Supercomputers by USA. Since then C-DAC has been undertaking building of multiple generations of Supercomputer starting from PARAM with 1 GF in 1988.

Almost at the same time, C-DAC started building Indian Language Computing Solutions with setting up of GIST group (Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology); National Centre for Software Technology (NCST) set up in 1985 had also initiated work in Indian Language Computing around the same period.

Armament Research and Development Establishment

It is a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Located in Pune, it is the main DRDO lab involved in the development of conventional armaments.

ARDE was established in 1958, with the goal of achieving self-sufficiency in the field of Armaments.
In 1966, ARDE moved to its present location at Pashan, on the outskirts of Pune.
ARDE’s main area of research is in the design and development of Conventional Armaments for the Indian Armed Forces.

Source: Indian Express

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