IoT System for Forest Monitoring

Several important issues are affecting the forest environment due to deforestation and natural disasters (for example forest fires, or increased gas emissions). This paper proposes an intelligent forest environment monitoring solution based on the Raspberry Pi Model 3, analogical and digital sensors and signals analysis algorithms. Parameters such as temperature, gas concentrations, soil humidity etc. are monitored with sensors while background sounds are analyzed with a classification algorithm on the basis of which the generated event can be classified into one of the following categories: Chainsaw, Vehicle, or Forest background noise. The user’s accessibility to the collected data is ensured via Internet and a mobile applications that allows the user to receive notifications, whenever fire, pollution sources, or illegal deforestation are detected. The SeaForest environment monitoring solution is an IoT project, addressed to public and private forest owners as well as to national environmental and disaster response authorities.