AID: A prototype for Agricultural Intrusion Detection using Wireless Sensor Network

In many developing countries, agriculture is one of the primary livelihoods of common people. Agriculture requires various types of technologies for improving crop yields. The attack of animals in the agricultural land and the theft of crops by humans cause heavy loss in cultivation. In this work, we propose a hardware prototype using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for intruder detection in an agricultural field. The proposed system is named Agricultural Intrusion Detection (AID). AID helps to generate alarms in the farmer´s house and at the same time transmits a text message to the farmer´s cell phone when an intruder enters into the field. In order to implement the proposed scheme, we design and deploy Advanced Virtual RISC (AVR) micro-controller-based wireless sensor boards over an outdoor environment and evaluate the performance.