Role of Wireless Sensor Networks in Forest Fire Prevention

Aim: The aim of this project is to design a system to prevent fire in forest using wireless sensor networks. Project Description: Because of the rapid development of sensors, microprocessors, and network technology, a reliable technological condition has been provided for our automatic real-time monitoring of forest fires control. This paper presents a new type of early warning systems which use a wireless sensor network to collect the information of forest fire-prone sections for forest fire, wireless sensor nodes constitute a smart monitoring and control network through the selforganization and transmits the messages to the control center through the network, thus we can achieve the remote control of the forest fire. The happenings of Forest Fire troubled every country all along, which caused great losses every year. Traditionally, fire prediction can only analyzed and calculated the predicted weather conditions to get a rough and rigid fire index value. What's more, it used the traditional manual inspection methods which can't realize on-site and real-time monitoring and control. In recent years, because of the rapid development of sensors, microprocessors, and network technology, a reliable technological condition has been provided for our automatic real-time monitoring of forest fires control. This paper presents a new type of early warning systems which use a wireless sensor network to collect the information of forest fire-prone sections for forest fire, wireless sensor nodes constitute a "smart" monitoring and control network through the self-organization and transmits the messages to the control center through the network, thus we can achieve the remote control of the forest fire.

Technology: RF: Radio frequency (RF) is a rate of oscillation in the range of about 3 kHz to 300 GHz, which corresponds to the frequency of radio waves, and the alternating currents which carry radio signals. RF usually refers to electrical rather than mechanical oscillations, although mechanical RF systems do exist. Block Diagram: Transmitter:

RF Module ARM7 Controller

Fire and Temp sensor

Buzzer

LCD

Receiver:

RF Module ARM7 Controller

PC

Buzzer

LCD

Hardware Requirement: ARM7 microcontroller LCD RF Modules Fire /smoke sensor Temperature sensor Buzzer HT640/648

Software Requirement: KEIL Embedded C Philips flash utility

Application Areas: Safety systems Fire prevention systems environmental detection and alarm floods