Forest fire detection system reliability test using wireless sensor network and OpenMTC communication platform

Machine to Machine (M2M) communication system has started gaining its real world momentum by the introduction of Internet and mobile technology into this system. Several works have come up to use this integrated system into many different vertical solutions and tried to bind one solution platform for many monolithic systems. One recent innovation is to use HTTP REST architecture as communication platform. This work tackles the first step of implementing OpenMTC as M2M and IoT communication platform. Involved sensors are carbon monoxide gas concentration, temperature, and humidity, combined with Zigbee and Arduino microcontroller to make up 2 Device Application components (or DAs, as proposed by ETSI M2M standard) connected to OpenMTC GSCL. Reliability tests were performed to measure sensor accuracy and system response in sensor-gateway communication. From the experiments in Kamojang Forest (West Java, Indonesia), we conclude that the system is sufficient to operate, considering 341 meters optimal range for sensor and gateway communication for the related area and 1250 ms average data transmission between sensor and gateway.