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A Wireless Sensor Network for Early Warning of Elephant Intrusions

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Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries (WSN4DC 2013)

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A wireless sensor network (WSN) specifically designed for detecting elephant intrusions into villages that border wildlife reserves and alerting threatened communities of the location of the same is described. Novel strategies for hardware, firmware and communication have been applied, exploiting the rareness of events to be detected and the low data rates and light traffic load involved, in order to balance power consumption, cost, easy installation and testing in rural areas. Attempts have been made to build in automatic preventive maintenance measures and maintainable by personnel without technical know-how. The paper presents the design of the system and the experimental evaluation of a prototype implementation.

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  1. Dialog – University of Moratuwa Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Department of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

    Lanka Wijesinghe, Prasanga Siriwardena & Dileeka Dias

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  1. IICT, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Faisal Karim Shaikh

  2. Faculty of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology,, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

  3. College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, 48128, Dearborn, MI, USA

    Habib M. Ammari

  4. Mehran University of Engineering and Technology,, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Muhammad Aslam Uqaili

  5. Kulliyyah of Information and Communicatiion Technology, International Islamic University, Malaysia

    Assadullah Shah

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Wijesinghe, L., Siriwardena, P., Dias, D. (2013). A Wireless Sensor Network for Early Warning of Elephant Intrusions. In: Shaikh, F.K., Chowdhry, B.S., Ammari, H.M., Uqaili, M.A., Shah, A. (eds) Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries. WSN4DC 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 366. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41054-3_4

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