Design WSN node for protection of forest trees against poaching based on ZigBee

Smuggling/theft of most important trees such as sandal wood in forests, poses a serious threat to forest resources, causes significant economic damage and ultimately has quite a devastating effect on the environment all over the world. This paper propose a microcontroller based anti poaching system...

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Published in2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT) pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Gaikwad, Smita, Patil, Rajesh, Khandare, Ajay, Rai, Anshuman
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.07.2015
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3-axis MEMS accelerometer
Acceleration
Accelerometers
Monitoring
Radio frequency
Vegetation
vibration measurement
Vibrations
Wireless sensor networks
WSN
Zigbee
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Summary:Smuggling/theft of most important trees such as sandal wood in forests, poses a serious threat to forest resources, causes significant economic damage and ultimately has quite a devastating effect on the environment all over the world. This paper propose a microcontroller based anti poaching system employing WSN technology, which is capable of detecting theft by monitoring the vibrations produced by the cutting of trees/branches using a 3 axis MEMS accelerometer. A low power MSP430F5529 microcontroller is used along with Xbee RF modules based on IEEE 802.15.4 Zigbee standards to communicate to a central server from a remote place. WSN is widely used technology in remote monitoring applications. The embedded system architecture and the hardware/software designs are described in detail. Vibration data collected by various tests on wood and simulated using Labview.
DOI:10.1109/CONECCT.2015.7383911