The Monkeys are Coming ─ Design of Agricultural Damage Warning System by IoT-Based Objects Detection and Tracking

Abstract

Agricultural production is an essential element in the development of human civilization. As the number of Taiwan Macaques increases, the original habitats cannot provide enough space and food for these macaques. So, there are many monkeys break in farm fields to obtain food and make significant agricultural damages. To prevent the crop losses, some protection and warning systems need to be deployed to detect and drive away these monkeys. In this paper, we proposed a coming monkeys warning system to reduce the agricultural damage from monkeys in the farm field. We deploy IP cameras and design a monkey detection system in the field to monitor the farmland. In order to identify the monkey accurately in the field, we used hybrid recognition mechanisms. The system can notify farmers when the monkey is near in the farmland, and then can make noise sounds to drive the monkey out. The experiments show the overall recognition accuracy can be approximated to 91%.