Prevention of monkey trespassing in agricultural field using application agricultural specific flooding approach in wireless sensor network

Abstract

Farmers are facing a lot of difficulties because of the increasing monkey menace in the Indian Agricultural land. The massive fruit and vegetable crops worth crores of rupees were fully damaged and destroyed by the monkeys. In an opinion survey that was conducted based on the monkey menace, it was discovered that monkeys are becoming a threat for public health, crop and property. Most people in the monkey menace prone zones are convinced that these monkeys should be trapped and moved to some other place. The existing detection systems such as Light and Camera Option, Infra sound and Seismic Communication Option are very highly expensive and very less effective. The proposed detection system comprises of wireless sensor network which is coupled with ultrasonic sound generator to ward off monkeys. The sensor node senses the movement of the monkey into the land and notifies the sink node by broadcasting alarm tones using our application specific flooding algorithm. The Sink node triggers the attached ultrasonic sound generator which produces ultrasonic sound in the range of more than 20 kHz which irritates monkeys and forces them away from the field. We evaluate the performance of our flooding approach using ns2.35 simulator and show that our algorithms performs better in terms of number of broadcasts, end to end latency and battery life of sensor nodes.