Anti-Smuggling Unit for Forest Monitoring using WSN

From the past few years, the newspapers are often filled with news about smuggling of the trees like sandal. These trees are very costly and more useful in the medical sciences as well as cosmetics. To restrict such smuggling and to save the forests around the globe, some preventive measures need to be deployed. An antitheft alert system is developed to reduce deforestation. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have emerged as one of the most promising research areas in recent years and are widely recognized as powerful means to offer environment and habitat monitoring, healthcare applications, home or industrial automation and control, product quality monitoring, disaster areas monitoring and inventory tracking. This approach is aimed at detecting and verifying fires in rural and forest environments. The WSN based proposed model includes ZigBee, GPRS, Ethernet communication modules and solar energy harvesting modules. It also applies a node hopping scheme to reach the data server.