Fire Detection System in Peatland Area using LoRa WAN Communication

Abstract

Land and forest fires are one of the threats in a tropical country, especially in Indonesia with forestry land and additional caused of type of land which peatland that easy to getting fire in the summer season. Currently, many techniques to detect fire hotspot and land fire but some of the technique can not apply in peatland case. This research proposes a new technique that can be applied to this case in Riau province, Indonesia which the land with peat type. Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRa WAN) used in the detection land and forest fire, with advantages of low power and long-range transmission in LoRA WAN very applicable in this detection of fire with the distance of fore hotspot very far and large of an area. The simulation result shows good performance and verification used mathematical modeling to check that the system is working and application to implement. The sensors deployed in the area which indicate for a forest fire in the simulated distance to detect the potential of fire then the information sent to the monitoring system in the data center. The proposed LoRa WAN method gives good response and recommended to implement in the peatland area which located in Riau Province, Indonesia.