Forest fire detection system using lora technology

Abstract

Millions of hectares of forest worldwide are affected annually by fires, which can lead to the loss of human lives, materials, destruction of natural flora and fauna but also can lead to the losses of raw materials. The problem is even greater in forests that are not guarded and do not have communication systems available. Thus, in recent years, have been proposed various systems that use devices based on Internet of Things (IoT) for real-time forest fire detection. In this paper, it is proposed a system capable of quickly detecting forest fires on long wide distance. In the development of this system it is used LoRa (Long Range) technology based on LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) protocol which is capable to connect low power devices distributed on large geographical areas being an innovative and great solution for transmissions of a low data transfer rate and a low transmission power on high ranges, and because has a great efficiency.