Early Warning Systems Using Fire Sensors, Wireless, and SMS Technology

The objective of this paper is to explore the state of art in developing a package of early warning system in mitigating peat fire disasters. The system was developed based on the combination utilization of the fire sensors, wireless technology, and SMS gateways. The early warning system was conducted by installing a number of LM35 temperature sensors in the field in Riau, Indonesia, as well as Atmega8 microcontrollers as transmitters and receivers of the fire data. Then these data will be transmitted wirelessly to the microcontroller. This early warning software application package has been developed using various applications such as GSM Gateway Application, MySQL database, Apache web server with PHP engine. This system will display the exact locations of the burning field as real-time information to the designated numbers of mobile phones (in the form of SMS texts) or a dedicated PC computer (in the form of GIS maps).