CSEIT206340 | Accepted : 03 May 2020 | Published : 11 May 2020 | May-June-2020 [ 6 (3) : 156-161 ] International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology © 2020 IJSRCSEIT | Volume 6 | Issue 3 | ISSN : 2456-3307 DOI : https://doi.org/10.32628/CSEIT206340 156 Deforestation Control and Forest Monitoring using Internet of Trees Divya K V 1 , Abhishek Ranjan 2 , Gagan Prasad 3 , Harshitha Shankar K 4 1 Sr.Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Engineering, New Horizon College of Engineering, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 2-4 Student, Department of Information Science and Engineering, New Horizon College of Engineering, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ABSTRACT Forests play an important role in the terrestrial carbon cycle and deforestation is a key driver of climate change. The manual monitoring of the forest to prevent unauthorized activities is a practically difficult job. There is a need for high-resolution, global forest monitoring tool. The four major operations that are essential in monitoring the forest are developed in this work, namely tree cutting detection, fire detection, landslide detection, and smoke detection using a sound sensor, temperature sensor, vibration & moisture sensor, and smoke sensor respectively. An Arduino UNO microcontroller is used along with the Wi-Fi module to communicate to the forest department. The sensed data from sensors is collected and sent to the authorized department via the Wi-Fi module. IoT has widely used technology in forest monitoring applications. In addition, this paper uses the NodeMCU module through which employees of the forest department can be notified over mobile phones if any sensed data crosses the threshold value. Keywords : Deforestation Control, Forest Monitoring, Wireless Mechanism I. INTRODUCTION Forest is a conditional renewable resource which can be regenerated but needs a certain period of time to maintain its sustainable functioning. In India, the forest resources have been found to be depleting at a pace which is much high. Rapid industrialization, urbanization and over- exploitation have resulted not only in decline but also in permanent loss of forest cover to an alarming rate. The over-exploitation of forest resources has taken place beyond the sustained yields to fulfil the needs of humans, thus bringing a change in the net forest cover. With the current rate of population explosion, the world population could be expected to increase from 7.6 billion to about 10 billion in the next 30 to 35 years. The growing demand for food can be expected to rise by 50% in the given period, and it is a matter of serious concern. Rational utilization and proper management of the forest resources are the most viable ways to prevent mass destruction of forests and large-scale species extinction. It is necessary to find the links between the growing demands and meeting the demands in a sustainable manner. In the earth’s carbon cycle, forests play a significant role and deforestation is major cause of climate change. There is a need for high resolution, global forest surveillance device that can be used to detect illegal deforestation, enhance natural disaster management, conserve biodiversity and more effective and sustainable forestry. Various measures were taken to control such effects. Firstly, human power was used to keep an eye on the forest area. But through this the