Abstract
In this paper, two important aspects of wildlife monitoring namely Health monitoring and Animal-vehicle collision (AVC) avoidance are addressed. Wildlife health monitoring is an important requirement in forest management. This necessitates monitoring the wellbeing and tracking of animals. In this work, temperature sensor and heart rate sensor are used to monitor the health condition of elephants. The sensors will give an indication, if the elephant’s body temperature and heart rate are not in range. An animal tracking system using Global Positioning System (GPS) is provided for remotely monitoring animal position. Internet of Things (IoT) technology is used to transmit the collected data from the sensors to a remote station where the data is stored in a database. If there is any critical condition identified, the system alerts the concerned officers/veterinary doctors to provide necessary treatment immediately. AVC is another important issue that affects wildlife heavily. In order to counteract AVC, a unified approach of Smart Animal Intrusion Detection System that monitors the movement of animals by integrating a number of sensors with LoRaWAN network, is proposed in this paper. Performance analysis of the proposed system is investigated using CupCarbon Software.
Highlights
Animal health monitoring is one of the important needs for preserving the natural resources of the country. it is required to monitor the wellbeing and movement of the animals within a forest region [1]
The physical condition of the animals can be monitored in real time using Internet of Things (IoT) technology [4]
Various techniques are proposed in the literature to monitor health condition of animals and their movements using IoT based Wireless sensor network (WSN) [5,6,7,8]
Summary
Animal health monitoring is one of the important needs for preserving the natural resources of the country. Various techniques are proposed in the literature to monitor health condition of animals and their movements using IoT based WSN [5,6,7,8]. Ultrasonic devices can generate ultrasonic waves of various frequencies (> 25 kHz) They offer safe and humane way of controlling animal intrusion and do not affect the human beings due to their operating frequencies that are way above the audible range of the human ear. The significance of LoRaWAN is that it enables long range of communication over a wireless channel, while consuming less power On receiving this information, the base station activates the silent siren and deters the animal away from the roadways and railways. The proposed work includes animal health monitoring and AVC avoidance.
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