Nigeria, as one of the best food producing country, needs some electronic innovation
in the field of agriculture. Monitoring and control of farming
environment play a crucial role in farming production and
management. Farm lands and plantations in Nigeria and
west African countries are usually very large scale running thousands of acres and in most cases fencing these large
expanses of land are prohibitively expensive and really overwhelming.
Farmers therefore act by putting together fences using
sticks and ropes and these provide the individual security measure
they can adopt. These security measures are feather-brained and really ineffective as intruders can easily jump them and move
away with the yielding amount of crops as they will carry them without the
knowledge of the owners, especially when such fences are erected around dark crevices. Also, with this situations in
West Africa where farmers face security threats in their farmland,
especially with the Fulani herdsmen group, the wireless sensor
networks technology are often utilized in this effect to urge real time
information of the farmland and know when an intrusion or other security threats occurs,
the nature or sort of intrusion with the required action(s) to take place. The Wireless Surveillance Network (WSNs) system comprises of the two wireless sensor nodes, surveillance network layers and a base station
that communicate with one another and gather real information or recordings to
make actual findings about things at hand. The system overpowers the limitation of erecting fences using sticks which
can be considerably stressful and ineffective. It also has the benefits of a rotating
motion detection, an good sound alarm and alert system as a security
measure. one among the new features included during this development , is an
alarm system which can be raised to frighten the invaders to
leave the farm premises.
When the invader stays for more than 35 seconds on the farmland, the GSM module is modified for sending SMS to the farm owner indicating the character of invasion.
It alerts the farmer that some human (mostly) or animals or birds are on the farm. the opposite feature comprises the metallic sensor which informs the farmer, if a person's
being who invade the farm is armed (with metallic objects
such as farm tools, cutlass, gun, etc.). The wireless network surveillance system is built with
the aim of executing maximal plant growth and yield.
Our farmlands needs more security...
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