A Design and Development of the Smart Forest Alert Monitoring System Using IoT

Abstract

Forest is one of the main sources of living organisms. Its needs start from the human breath to usage of the wood. But due to many reasons, area occupied by the forest is reducing every year. The reasons behind these environmental impacts are natural disasters (forest fires), deforestation activities, and unlawful actions. Forest fire could be creating most serious threat to wild animals and resources of human welfares. The primary phenomenon of the wild fire occurrence is circumstance hotness of the forest. The dry and hot atmosphere caused the fire in the forest. The deforestation and smuggling activities are also tridents to the available forest. The main consideration of this article is to detect wildfires in advance and protect forest resources from social crimes through advanced sensor integration in the IoT (Internet of Things) environment. A smart forest alert monitoring system has been proposed in this article to avoid forest mishap over by automated self-decision-making protective actions such as parameter measures and alert and implementing the harm mitigation actions related to the hot temperature, humidity, smoke, and smuggling of trees. All the sensors work as per the algorithm designed by the specific application of IoT (Internet of Things). The accurate predictions of the forest fire events and ensuring the forest safety have been tested and verified by a conducted case study on the real forest zone environment.

An efficient and low cost realization of LoRa based real-time forest protection system

“…The system performs data collection from various sensors, data processing, analyzing and decision making, alerting the concerned through short message service (SMS) with location information, thereby supporting the e-governance in the forestry. The smart forest alert monitoring system developed in [18] is using various wireless sensors for early detection of wildfires. Data from these sensors is transmitted to a cloud server using 4G/LTE link and automated fire extinguishment and deforestation action is initiated to control the forest hazards.…”

Application of Geoinformatics in Forest Planning and Management

“…Due to the cloud passage and uncertainty of image capture, fire recognition accuracy of satellite measurement system is low; sometimes, fire recognition sensitivity lags. To solve this issue, Krishnamoorthy [42] utilized IoT technology to identify fire by sensing and measuring environmental parameters through multiple sensors. This method avoids false calls and faulty alarms caused by a single sensor.…”

Real-Time Sensor Data Analytics and Visualization in Cloud-Based Systems for Forest Environment Monitoring

“…Forests provide many living things and wood to breathe; it requires it. However, forest acreage is decreasing annually [9]. Deforestation, forest fires, and illegal activities cause these environmental effects.…”