Field Experiment Testbed for Forest Fire Detection using Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network

摘要

Forest fire disasters have arisen each year due to a number of factors. The main interest ofthe authorities is to fight against these fires as early as possible with a minimum of damage, by exploitingrecent technologies suitable for this field. In this paper, we present the design and the implementationof a forest fire detection system based on the Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks(WMSN) technology applied to our region (M'sila forest, Oran city - Algeria) using a field experimenttestbed with low cost hardware and software. In our previous study, the designed system detectsthe fire using a mono modal approach (the sensed data was scalar in nature such as the temperatureand humidity). In this work, we enhanced this system by collecting, in addition, richer informationsources using cameras as data sources (by capturing images) to eliminate the false alarmswhich present the main weakness of the first system. We call this new system as Multimedia ForestFire System (M2FS). Field experiments that we have carried out using the testbed under differentscenarios by evaluating the image compression, time constraint and energy consumption, allowed usto validate our chosen technology (Arduino mote) for any application (scalar or multimedia), and alsorevealed the supremacy of the multimodal approach to mitigate efficiently false alarms.