Citation

Sahin YG. Sensors (Basel) 2007; 7(12): 3084-3099.

Affiliation

Izmir University of Economics, Department of Software Engineering, Izmir, Turkey. yasar.sahin@ieu.edu.tr.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/s7123084

PMID

28903281

Abstract

This paper proposes a mobile biological sensor system that can assist in early detection of forest fires one of the most dreaded natural disasters on the earth. The main idea presented 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 two different methods, firstly: access points continuously receive data about animals' location using GPS at certain time intervals and the gathered data is then classified and checked to see if there is a sudden movement (panic) of the animal groups: this method is called animal behavior 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 data to a central computer to check for instant changes in the temperatures. This system may be used for many purposes other than fire detection, namely animal tracking, poaching prevention and detecting instantaneous animal death.

Language: en

Keywords

Animal tracking; Biological sensors; Forest fire detection; Mobile sensors