MUMBAI, India, Jan. 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541113005 A) filed by Sethu Institute Of Technology, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, on Nov. 18, 2025, for 'ai-assisted rockfall early alert system for tunnel portals and access roads.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. S. M. Nazia Fathima; R. Logaraja; P. Abhishek; A. Sheik Abdullah; M. Anusha Mahalakshmi; K. Ashlin Jayarani; and T. Monisha.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 9, under issue no. 02/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This invention relates to the Al-based rockfall prediction & alert system for tunnel portals and access roads, it typically includes an loT sensor (1); a remote sensing 5 input (2), an edge node (3), a cloud infrastructure (4), an ML forecasting model (5), a rag retrieval module (6), a web dashboard (7), and an automated alert integration (8). This invention significantly enhances safety and operational continuity by providing a low-cost, scalable method to continuously monitor slope stability and issue proactive, accurate alerts based on probabilistic rockfall forecasts. This invention is to provide io proactive slope stability monitoring and ha7ard mitigation in tunnel portals and access roads by generating accurate rockfall forecasts and enabling the timely issuance of safety alerts to site operators."
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