GATA: GPS-Arduino based Tracking and Alarm system for protection of wildlife animals

In the present arena, wildlife and forest departments are facing the problem of movement of animals from forest area to residential area. The number of trees has reduced drastically from the forest that creates an unhealthy environment for animals to survive in the forest. This paper proposes a system we call GATA for tracking and alarming for the protection of Wildlife Animals. GATA combined Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) [1] and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies to solve the above mentioned problem. Wild animals straying out of wildlife sanctuaries and natural parks have been tracked by auto generative location tracking and movement patterns. Automatic location and movement tracking has been implemented using GPS with the accelerometer and the WiFi shield. In the event of straying of a wild animal out of the predefined zone of sanctuary or natural reserve, an alert is sounded on a fixed base station (BS). As a prototype, we have tested this hardware on the cows, which shows that the proposed approach is very efficient in terms of flexibility and cost. This may be acting as a deterrent to various anti social activities poaching, train delays, railway accidents and danger to man due to the straying out of the animals off their habitation zone.