Animals as Mobile Biological Sensors for Forest Fire Detection
This paper proposes a mobile biological sensor system that can assist in earlydetection of forest fires one of the most dreaded natural disasters on the earth. The main ideapresented in this paper is to utilize animals with sensors as Mobile Biological Sensors(MBS). The devices used in this system a...
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| description | This paper proposes a mobile biological sensor system that can assist in earlydetection of forest fires one of the most dreaded natural disasters on the earth. The main ideapresented in this paper is to utilize animals with sensors as Mobile Biological Sensors(MBS). The devices used in this system are animals which are native animals living inforests, sensors (thermo and radiation sensors with GPS features) that measure thetemperature and transmit the location of the MBS, access points for wireless communicationand a central computer system which classifies of animal actions. The system offers twodifferent methods, firstly: access points continuously receive data about animals’ locationusing GPS at certain time intervals and the gathered data is then classified and checked tosee if there is a sudden movement (panic) of the animal groups: this method is called animalbehavior classification (ABC). The second method can be defined as thermal detection(TD): the access points get the temperature values from the MBS devices and send the datato a central computer to check for instant changes in the temperatures. This system may beused for many purposes other than fire detection, namely animal tracking, poachingprevention and detecting instantaneous animal death. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-16019da0830b4272ba750c2cdc037c1e2022-12-22T04:22:00ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202007-12-017123084309910.3390/s7123084Animals as Mobile Biological Sensors for Forest Fire DetectionYasar Guneri SahinThis paper proposes a mobile biological sensor system that can assist in earlydetection of forest fires one of the most dreaded natural disasters on the earth. The main ideapresented in this paper is to utilize animals with sensors as Mobile Biological Sensors(MBS). The devices used in this system are animals which are native animals living inforests, sensors (thermo and radiation sensors with GPS features) that measure thetemperature and transmit the location of the MBS, access points for wireless communicationand a central computer system which classifies of animal actions. The system offers twodifferent methods, firstly: access points continuously receive data about animals’ locationusing GPS at certain time intervals and the gathered data is then classified and checked tosee if there is a sudden movement (panic) of the animal groups: this method is called animalbehavior classification (ABC). The second method can be defined as thermal detection(TD): the access points get the temperature values from the MBS devices and send the datato a central computer to check for instant changes in the temperatures. This system may beused for many purposes other than fire detection, namely animal tracking, poachingprevention and detecting instantaneous animal death.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/7/12/3084/Forest fire detectionBiological sensorsMobile sensorsAnimal tracking |
| spellingShingle | Yasar Guneri Sahin Animals as Mobile Biological Sensors for Forest Fire Detection Sensors Forest fire detection Biological sensors Mobile sensors Animal tracking |
| title | Animals as Mobile Biological Sensors for Forest Fire Detection |
| title_full | Animals as Mobile Biological Sensors for Forest Fire Detection |
| title_fullStr | Animals as Mobile Biological Sensors for Forest Fire Detection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Animals as Mobile Biological Sensors for Forest Fire Detection |
| title_short | Animals as Mobile Biological Sensors for Forest Fire Detection |
| title_sort | animals as mobile biological sensors for forest fire detection |
| topic | Forest fire detection Biological sensors Mobile sensors Animal tracking |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/7/12/3084/ |
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