Design And Construction Of A Farm Intruder With Camera And SD Card Recorder

Nigeria being an agricultural country needs some innovation in the field of agriculture. Monitoring and control of farming environment play an important role in farming production and management. Farm lands and plantations in Nigeria and African countries are usually very large scale running into hundreds of acres and in most cases fencing these large expanses of land can be prohibitively expensive and very stressful. Farmers therefore resort to building fences using sticks and ropes and these provide the only security measure they can adopt. These security measures are trivial and very ineffective as intruders can easily jump over them and cart away with as much crops as they can carry without the knowledge of the owners, especially when such fences are built around dark crevices. Also, with the present situations in Africa where farmers are facing security threats in their farms, especially with the Fulani herdsmen, the wireless sensor networks technology can be used in this effect to get real time information of the farm and know when an intrusion occurs, the nature or type of intrusion with the necessary action(s) to follow. The architecture of the WSNs system comprises of a set of sensor nodes, surveillance facilities and a base station that communicate with each other and gather information to make decisions about the situation at hand. The system overcomes the limitation of building fences using sticks which can be very much stressful. It also has the advantages of motion detection with camera and alert system as a security measure. Hardware of this system has been designed using microcontroller AT Mega 328, PIR (Passive Infra Red) motion sensor as the primary sensor for motion detection, camera for capturing images and SD card (in ESP32- CAM module) save images capture by camera.