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<p>A forest has different types of vegetation like herbs, trees, shrubs and different species of animals. In one way or other, these renewable resources are very essential to mankind. Forest fires are the most common hazards in forests which lead to serious destruction of forest wealth, bio-diversity and natural habitat. Early detection and preventive measures are necessary to protect forests from fires. In order to achieve early detection, there are two most used traditional methods of human surveillance. One is directly through human observation and the other is through distant video surveillance. Doing the observation through distant mode, one can achieve surveillance through automation approach of detection. Automated fire alert detection system proposed in this paper comprises of two sensors, namely smoke and fire. These sensors detect change in a measurable physical quantity and help in the early detection of a forest fire. A key feature of this fire detection system is to alert the user remotely by using a GSM module, whenever a fire is detected.</p>
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A forest has different types of vegetation like herbs, trees, shrubs and different species of animals. In one way or other, these renewable resources are very essential to mankind. Forest fires are the most common hazards in forests which lead to serious destruction of forest wealth, bio-diversity and natural habitat. Early detection and preventive measures are necessary to protect forests from fires. In order to achieve early detection, there are two most used traditional methods of human surveillance. One is directly through human observation and the other is through distant video surveillance. Doing the observation through distant mode, one can achieve surveillance through automation approach of detection. Automated fire alert detection system proposed in this paper comprises of two sensors, namely smoke and fire. These sensors detect change in a measurable physical quantity and help in the early detection of a forest fire. A key feature of this fire detection system is to alert the user remotely by using a GSM module, whenever a fire is detected.

Forest fire detection using wireless sensor networks

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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A forest has different types of vegetation like herbs, trees, shrubs and different species of animals. In one way or other, these renewable resources are very...

Forest fire detection using wireless sensor networks

Article Category: Research-Article

Published Online: Apr 18, 2020

Page range: 1 - 8

Received: Mar 20, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2020-006

Keywords
GSM (global system for mobile communication), Smoke sensor, Flame sensor, WSN (wireless sensor network), Surveillance, RF (radio frequency)

© 2020 Premsai Dasari et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Forest fire detection using wireless sensor networks

Article Category: Research-Article

Published Online: Apr 18, 2020

Page range: 1 - 8

Received: Mar 20, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2020-006

KeywordsGSM (global system for mobile communication), Smoke sensor, Flame sensor, WSN (wireless sensor network), Surveillance, RF (radio frequency)

© 2020 Premsai Dasari et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
GSM (global system for mobile communication), Smoke sensor, Flame sensor, WSN (wireless sensor network), Surveillance, RF (radio frequency)