Forest fire early detection system design utilising the WSN simulator

Abstract

The paper presents the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Simulator and its usage for designing the forest fire early detection system. The WSN Simulator is developed based on proposed Sensor model and WSN model. The WSN Simulator address important design issues as: coverage of the area under surveillance in relation to initial sensor deployment, number of sensors needed for targeted deployment, and coverage change as function of time. Simulator is scalable, and can be easily extended to include additional modeling provisions.