What is it about?
WSN is a self-organized network that consists of a distributed number of minor devices for performing the monitoring activities within the deployed environment. Many wildfires cause forest damages resulting in affecting of a large number of living organisms. This research study discusses a system design approach to wireless sensor networks (WSN) based on the monitoring of wildfire. The main goal of the proposed solution is to intelligently estimate scale and intensity of the wildfire which is ignited in the forest. The energy-efficient and priority-based techniques have been implemented for the data communication between the wireless sensor networks. The dynamic routing paths can be created with the help of the proposed data communication solution. These dynamic paths are developed depending upon a number of parameters such as weight, energy, fire, weather index, and security. For the sake of validation, the proposed solution has designed and implemented a prototype by the use of Microsoft Framework (tools and technologies) to accomplish an extensive number of simulation experiments. The results and evaluations clearly show the efficiency and dependability of our proposed approach based on the wireless sensor network.
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Why is it important?
Information and communication (ICT) technologies have been utilized for a number of applications in real-time monitoring, surveillance, and performing many other tasks and activities. With the help of information technology, numerous tasks have been automated in performing many activities which are almost impossible for the human to perform. There is a number of key turn solutions that have been designed, developed, and implemented with the help of advanced communication technologies. Still, a large number of research works have been conducted in the field of communication and networking. In today's world, there is a number of key turn solutions that are available in the market. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a self-organization network that consists of a distributed number of minor devices. The wireless sensor networks have been utilized in a number of real-time applications. The wireless sensor networks (WSN) are used to perform various kinds of environmental monitoring. The sensors are used to collect different kinds of parameters from the environment and transfer the information to the sink node or base stations. There are many protocols that have been utilized for the data transfer between the wireless sensor networks (WSN). The wireless sensor networks (WSN) have few standards of data communication and coordination. The common sensor network utilized for the wireless sensor network (WSN) includes ZigBee, Bagheri, and 6LoWPAN. These are the common schemes that have been utilized for WSNs' communication and coordination.
Perspectives
The wireless sensor networks are usually organized an ad hoc network, which is a kind of network such that each node participates in routing by forwarding data to other nodes, without relying on any centralized infrastructure such as router and base station. Nodes can join or leave at any time and are free to move around as they desire. A routing protocol is an algorithm used by nodes to determine a path for forwarding packets toward a destination. Ad hoc networks usually use distance vector routing, since centralized link-state routing is not feasible due to its complexity and the significant cost of propagating the link states. In distance vector routing protocols, each node maintains the name of next-hop and the number of hops to reach the destination. Ad hoc routing protocols fall into two categories: table-driven and on-demand [11]. A routing protocol is one of the most fundamental infrastructures of ad hoc networks. Automatic and intelligent system demands are dynamically increasing in today's market and it observed that there is a high demand for a decision support system. The above discussion is performed from the perspective of the existing forest fires detection system that has been conducted in past. The key gaps and issues focusing on the context that how these challenges and issues can be resolved through the conceptual framework based on WSN technology. Because each system has some gaps and missing holes which might available in the said system, however, according to our analysis, there is a high probability that if these issues and challenges are resolved for a better Forest Fires Alerting System (FFAS) based on WSN can be designed and developed.
Mr Saeed Ullah Jan
University of Malakand
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This page is a summary of: An Improved Forest Fire Alerting System Using Wireless Sensor Network, Advances in Networks, January 2018, Science Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.11648/j.net.20180601.13.
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