scholarly journals An Iot Based Forest Fire Detection using Raspberry Pi

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 9126-9132

As we all know forests are the main source of oxygen and its protection is essential to sustain the human and animal race. Since we all learnt about the necessity of air, yet we lack at taking measures to protect our mother forest. Forest Fires are the main reason for the deforestation and destruction of trees and wildlife. Forest Fires are due to these two ways either by man-made or naturally caused. In either way we have to pay for the loss occurred because we have left with only certain area for the forest. So, we have to take measures to prevent forest fire at its early stage. The main aim of our project is to design and implement an IoT based hardware module that could detect the fire and prevent it by alerting the monitoring stations with an alert message and also provides location to the nearest base station. An automatic message will be sent to the nearest base station in addition to these, it has a 360 degrees rotation camera which helps to provide continuous surveillance. We can rotate the camera in any direction from the base station itself. A buzzer that alarms when the incident is happening and a water motor, this water motor will be on automatically. We can also find location where the incident is taking place with the help of Wi-Fi module. This device helps in identifying the fire at its early stage and helps in the prevention of spread all over the forest.

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 768
Author(s):  
Jin Pan ◽  
Xiaoming Ou ◽  
Liang Xu

Forest fires are serious disasters that affect countries all over the world. With the progress of image processing, numerous image-based surveillance systems for fires have been installed in forests. The rapid and accurate detection and grading of fire smoke can provide useful information, which helps humans to quickly control and reduce forest losses. Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have yielded excellent performance in image recognition. Previous studies mostly paid attention to CNN-based image classification for fire detection. However, the research of CNN-based region detection and grading of fire is extremely scarce due to a challenging task which locates and segments fire regions using image-level annotations instead of inaccessible pixel-level labels. This paper presents a novel collaborative region detection and grading framework for fire smoke using a weakly supervised fine segmentation and a lightweight Faster R-CNN. The multi-task framework can simultaneously implement the early-stage alarm, region detection, classification, and grading of fire smoke. To provide an accurate segmentation on image-level, we propose the weakly supervised fine segmentation method, which consists of a segmentation network and a decision network. We aggregate image-level information, instead of expensive pixel-level labels, from all training images into the segmentation network, which simultaneously locates and segments fire smoke regions. To train the segmentation network using only image-level annotations, we propose a two-stage weakly supervised learning strategy, in which a novel weakly supervised loss is proposed to roughly detect the region of fire smoke, and a new region-refining segmentation algorithm is further used to accurately identify this region. The decision network incorporating a residual spatial attention module is utilized to predict the category of forest fire smoke. To reduce the complexity of the Faster R-CNN, we first introduced a knowledge distillation technique to compress the structure of this model. To grade forest fire smoke, we used a 3-input/1-output fuzzy system to evaluate the severity level. We evaluated the proposed approach using a developed fire smoke dataset, which included five different scenes varying by the fire smoke level. The proposed method exhibited competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zixi Xie ◽  
Weiguo Song ◽  
Rui Ba ◽  
Xiaolian Li ◽  
Long Xia

Two of the main remote sensing data resources for forest fire detection have significant drawbacks: geostationary Earth Observation (EO) satellites have high temporal resolution but low spatial resolution, whereas Polar-orbiting systems have high spatial resolution but low temporal resolution. Therefore, the existing forest fire detection algorithms that are based on a single one of these two systems have only exploited temporal or spatial information independently. There are no approaches yet that have effectively merged spatial and temporal characteristics to detect forest fires. This paper fills this gap by presenting a spatiotemporal contextual model (STCM) that fully exploits geostationary data’s spatial and temporal dimensions based on the data from Himawari-8 Satellite. We used an improved robust fitting algorithm to model each pixel’s diurnal temperature cycles (DTC) in the middle and long infrared bands. For each pixel, a Kalman filter was used to blend the DTC to estimate the true background brightness temperature. Subsequently, we utilized the Otsu method to identify the fire after using an MVC (maximum value month composite of NDVI) threshold to test which areas have enough fuel to support such events. Finally, we used a continuous timeslot test to correct the fire detection results. The proposed algorithm was applied to four fire cases in East Asia and Australia in 2016. A comparison of detection results between MODIS Terra and Aqua active fire products (MOD14 and MYD14) demonstrated that the proposed algorithm from this paper effectively analyzed the spatiotemporal information contained in multi-temporal remotely sensed data. In addition, this new forest fire detection method can lead to higher detection accuracy than the traditional contextual and temporal algorithms. By developing algorithms that are based on AHI measurements to meet the requirement to detect forest fires promptly and accurately, this paper assists both emergency responders and the general public to mitigate the damage of forest fires.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-177
Author(s):  
K. Nörthemann ◽  
J.-E. Bienge ◽  
J. Müller ◽  
W. Moritz

Abstract. Most huge forest fires start in partial combustion. In the beginning of a smouldering fire, emission of hydrogen in low concentration occurs. Therefore, hydrogen can be used to detect forest fires before open flames are visible and high temperatures are generated. We have developed a hydrogen sensor comprising of a metal/solid electrolyte/insulator/semiconductor (MEIS) structure which allows an economical production. Due to the low energy consumption, an autarkic working unit in the forest was established. In this contribution, first experiments are shown demonstrating the possibility to detect forest fires at a very early stage using the hydrogen sensor.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.12) ◽  
pp. 1312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinay Chowdary ◽  
Mukul Kumar Gupta ◽  
Rajesh Singh

Forest fire disasters have always been mankind’s constant and inconvenient companion since time immemorial. In the recent past years, managing crisis for example a large scale fire has become a very difficult and challenging task. Things that are common in most of the forest fire that occur at large scale are loss of life (human or animal), loss of vegetation, loss of flora and fauna, and communication failure (if any). Apart from causing a great loss to valuable natural resources of nature forest fire pose a greater risk not only to life of human being but also to the inhabitant’s such as wild life living in the forest. As per National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS), if a fire is detected within 6 minutes of its occurrence then it can be easily disposed-off before it turns into a large scale fire. For this a network that can detect fire at a very early stage is required. There are numerous techniques to detect the occurrence of forest fire and this article is dedicated towards reviewing detection techniques present in the literature. This work will give a bird’s eye view of the technologies used in automatic detection of forest fires and reviews almost all the detection techniques available in the literature. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time that almost all the techniques available in the literature are reviewed and considering almost all the parameters.


Author(s):  
S. H. Park ◽  
W. Park ◽  
H. S. Jung

Forest fires are a major natural disaster that destroys a forest area and a natural environment. In order to minimize the damage caused by the forest fire, it is necessary to know the location and the time of day and continuous monitoring is required until fire is fully put out. We have tried to improve the forest fire detection algorithm by using a method to reduce the variability of surrounding pixels. We focused that forest areas of East Asia, part of the Himawari-8 AHI coverage, are mostly located in mountainous areas. The proposed method was applied to the forest fire detection in Samcheok city, Korea on May 6 to 10, 2017.


Author(s):  
Gopalakrishnan G ◽  
Arul Mozhi Varman S ◽  
Dinessh T C ◽  
Divayarupa S ◽  
Benazir Begam R

Over the past years, a radical change in Earth’s temperature has been recorded. It has caused global warming and severe changes in climatic conditions. Naturally, this has resulted in many natural disasters. Forest fire is one such calamity that harms the environment to a great extent. The traditional methods of controlling and suppressing the fires are ineffective as the fires spread too rapidly if it is not contained at the initial stage. Hence this paper proposes a system that aims to automatically detect forest fires and suppress them. This system will suppress and contain the forest fires long enough for the firefighters to arrive.


Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Renjie Xu ◽  
Haifeng Lin ◽  
Kangjie Lu ◽  
Lin Cao ◽  
Yunfei Liu

Due to the various shapes, textures, and colors of fires, forest fire detection is a challenging task. The traditional image processing method relies heavily on manmade features, which is not universally applicable to all forest scenarios. In order to solve this problem, the deep learning technology is applied to learn and extract features of forest fires adaptively. However, the limited learning and perception ability of individual learners is not sufficient to make them perform well in complex tasks. Furthermore, learners tend to focus too much on local information, namely ground truth, but ignore global information, which may lead to false positives. In this paper, a novel ensemble learning method is proposed to detect forest fires in different scenarios. Firstly, two individual learners Yolov5 and EfficientDet are integrated to accomplish fire detection process. Secondly, another individual learner EfficientNet is responsible for learning global information to avoid false positives. Finally, detection results are made based on the decisions of three learners. Experiments on our dataset show that the proposed method improves detection performance by 2.5% to 10.9%, and decreases false positives by 51.3%, without any extra latency.


The forest fires are alone not a threat to the environment but this add on multiple factors which are threat to the environment few examples are decreasing of ground water level, landslides, global warming. These are dangerous for the animal species and few vulnerable species. In recent years few a case has been heard of forest fires in Amazon, California which damaged the flora and fauna. Scientist have also predicted that by end of twentieth century the average temperature of earth will rise by 4.4 degree Celsius. The forest fire detection will give strength to the disaster response capacity. Environmental parameters such as forest temperature and humidity can be tracked in real time. From the information gathered by the system, wildfire fighting or fire prevention decisions can be taken as quickly as possible by the respective fire departments.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Aqsa Tehseen ◽  
Nazir Ahmad Zafar ◽  
Tariq Ali ◽  
Fatima Jameel ◽  
Eman H. Alkhammash

Forests are an enduring component of the natural world and perform a vital role in protecting the environment. Forests are valuable resources to control global warming and provide oxygen for the survival of human life, including wood for households. Forest fires have recently emerged as a major threat to biological processes and the ecosystem. Unfortunately, almost every year, fire damages millions of hectares of forest land due to late and inefficient detection of fire. However, it is important to identify the forest fire at the initial level before it spreads to vast areas and destroys natural resources. In this paper, a formal model of the Internet of Things (IoT) and drone-based forest fire detection and counteraction system is presented. The proposed system comprises network maintenance. Sensor deployment is on trees, the ground, and animals in the form of subnets to transmit sensed data to the control room. All subnets are connected to the control room through gateway nodes. Alarms are being used to alert human beings and animals to save their lives, which will help to initially protect them from fire. The embedded sensors collect the information and transfer it to the gateways. Drones are being used for real-time visualization of fire-affected areas and to perform actions to control fires because they play a vital role in disasters. Graph theory is used to construct an efficient model and to show the connectivity of the network. To identify failures and develop recovery procedures, the algorithm is designed through the graph-based model. The model is developed by the Vienna Development Method-Specification Language (VDM-SL), and the correctness of the model is ensured using various VDM-SL toolbox facilities.


The forest is one of the most important wealth of every country. The forest fires destroys the wildlife habitat, damages the environment, affects the climate, spoils the biological properties of the soil, etc. So the forest fire detection is a major issue in the present decade. At the same time the forest fire have to be detected as fast as possible. In the proposed method, a color spatial segmentation, temporal segmentation, global motion compensation, Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifications are used to detect the fire and to segment the fire from the video sequence. The method is implemented over the two real time data sets. The proposed method is most suitable for segmenting fire events over unconstrained videos in real time.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document