Abstract: Forest fires pose a real threat to human lives, ecological systems and properties. Hundreds of millions of hectares are destroyed by wildfires each year and over 200,000 forest fires happen every year around the world. Forest fires destroy a total area of 3.5 to 4.5 million km². Unfortunately, Forest fire is usually only noticed when it has already spread over a large area, making it difficult to control and sometimes making stoppage impossible at times. The result is devastating loss and irreversible damage to the environment and atmosphere (30%of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere comes from forest fires), in addition to irreversible damage to the environment (huge amounts of smoke and carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere). Fire outbreaks have a starting period of about 3 to 5 minutes which is the ideal time to detect it and put it out after which it might get out of control. This means that timely identification of potential fire outbreak sources is critical to managing it. Most Forests are not fitted with fire detection devices owing to lack of awareness, inefficiencies, ineffectiveness and high costs. This project seeks to design and model a prototype of a simple and efficient wireless forest fire detection and control system. This project applied rapid prototype methodology for development of the prototype.
Keywords: Forest Fire, Arduino microcontroller, GSM, GPS.
Title: Wireless Forest Fire Detection and Control System
Author: Daniel Taylor, Clement T. Siaw
International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Research
ISSN 2348-6988 (online)
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