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Management of Forest Fires Using IoT Devices

Authors:
Josué Toledo-Castro
Iván Santos-González
Candelaria Hernández-Goya
Pino Caballero-Gil

Keywords: IoT;sensors;emergency situations management;weather events;forest fires;atmospheric pollutions

Abstract:
Effectiveness and response time in emergency situations management are key factors that directly influence the number of victims. The analysis of environmental conditions in real time (such as weather events and polluting gases) could provide relevant data on the environment that could help prevent or detect an emergency situation. Nowadays, IoT (Internet of Things) devices and sensors allow the monitoring of different environmental variables, such as temperature, humidity, pressure and concentrations of pollutant gases, such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Radical changes and combinations of these variables could indicate the occurrence of adverse weather events that could cause a natural disaster, such as a forest fire. Thus, the developed system integrates IoT devices and sensors that can perform a real time control of different atmospheric variables and polluting gases, in order to activate alerts when pollution levels increase excessively or when detecting certain conditions that are considered to be possible factors for causing adverse climatic events. These events can favour the occurrence of fires and other emergency situations. Particular attention has been paid to the communication security among IoT devices, Web service and mobile devices. Moreover, a secure data transmission protocol, a block cipher algorithm and a secure authentication scheme have been implemented.

Pages: 121 to 126

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: November 12, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-598-2

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 12, 2017 to November 16, 2017