DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WIRELESS ANTI-POACHING ALARM SYSTEM

Smuggling or theft of most important trees such as sandalwood, teakwood and timbers in forests, poses a serious threat to forest resources, causing significant economic damage and ultimately has quite devastating effect on the environment all over the world. Inspite of growing technology, protection for trees in a large area like forest is difficult. It is also expensive to implement. A system that can prevent the smuggling of trees in forest is designed and implemented. The main objective of this system is to monitor such peculiar trees whose plundering has been tremendously increased by the use of Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) Technology and vibration sensor for the forest department with the help of renewable energy sources of solar energy. This System proposes a microcontroller based anti- poaching system employing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). It is capable of detecting theft by monitoring the vibrations produced by the cutting of trees/branches using a three axis MEMS accelerometer. Depending on the vibration and movement of the trees,it will send a message to the forest officer to indicate the tree cutting in deep forest area