Forest monitoring and notification system.

Abstract

One of the National Development Priorities is to protect and enhance forest biological diversity to provide a range of environmental, social, and economic benefits for present and future generations. Various initiatives and systems like NFA plantation development, Geographic Information System is being employed. Nonetheless, forests are being lost to widespread illegal. logging, unsustainable charcoal burning and this is attributed to inefficient systems for monitoring forests. This research has focused on developing a forest monitoring system to address the existing gaps. This system. monitors the forest background noise, smoke, and carbon dioxide respectively and comprises multiple sensor nodes to form a wireless sensor network that covers the forest with a sewer to store the recordings and a web-based application to provide a user interface. This system uses low-power sensors, a web application that makes it easy to monitor in real-time the forest conditions without any physical effort.