Design of WSN Model with NS2 for Animal Tracking and Monitoring

Abstract

Tracking and monitoring wild life is a significant ecological issue that cannot be overlooked. Especially getting fundamental indications of wild animal like Tigers is critical and evaluating their wellbeing without harming their habitat is another important task and recording their vital signs by sedating causes stress and injuries in animal. This paper proposes a design of wireless based tracking and health monitoring system for Tigers using WSN and Network simulator 2. The important physiological parameters like temperature of heart beat rate, sound signal, respiration rate, accelerometer signal and GPS data is transmitted and monitored through wireless sensor network (WSN).A sensor network is composed of different sensors which remotely communicate with each other and the information of each node are separated. Each node has ability to communicate among each other or to a specific node to communicate with sink node A Network simulator which acts as simulation tool for network of sensor nodes in tracking and monitoring system is employed to simulate the location and health of tigers. This system empowers veterinarians and forest guards to precisely and accurately take an animal's vital signs and analyses the health and location. We analyze the performance of simulation model by using metrics, such as average throughput of all nodes, end to end delay, packet received, packet dropped and packet delivery ratio (PDR), average good put and energy model.