bhubaneswar mobile apps are taking over our lives from buying groceries calling a cab ordering furniture to tracking health and fitness but giving utility apps a whole new dimension the authorities of the similipal tiger reserve str are considering using a mobile application developed by a private company to track movement of wildlife field personnel in the mayurbhanjbased sanctuarythe str authorities will provide new handsets to field personnel and the app can be downloaded by them this will help senior str officials track their movement during patrolling and get realtime data about poachers the prey base and tigers str deputy director ajit satapathy told toi the indigenous software has been developed exclusively for the purpose of tracking animals and field personnel in deep forests the private firm will make a presentation to us on march 29 about the workings of the software it will also give a live demonstration on how to operate the mobile satapathy said str will be the second protected area in the country to adopt the hitech way of tracking field staff movement after bandipur national tiger reserve in karnataka in 2014mobile phones do not get network in the str because of dense forests and hilly terrain official sources said the str authorities will install a software called hejje installed in their server which will help track information gathered through the app the advantage of this app is that it will work even if there is no network this will enable senior forest officials get learn about the movements of foot patrolling staff while they trek inhospitable forest terrain and take action accordinglyhejje will facilitate 24x7 surveillance it will help us know the exact location of the special tiger protection force stpf and other field personnel on our computers while sitting in our office we can issue advice upon receiving information about poachers and get pictures of the areas too said a senior wildlife officerstr the fourth largest tiger reserve in the country is spread over a 2750 sq km core area in august 2014 the str authorities started roundtheclock monitoring of big cat movements in the sanctuary through camera traps installed at 63 locations the camera traps were installed to facilitate monitoring of an over 318 sq km area identified as tiger landscape within the strs core areaas per the national tiger conservation authority 2010 census there are about 23 tigers in the sanctuary the sambar and deer population in the reserve is nearly 30 000 there are about 900010000 wild boars according to official sources str is the second tiger reserve in the country to have formed an stpf also after bandipur national tiger reserve