Smart cities implementation: Australian bushfire disaster detection system using IoT innovation

In fact, over hundreds of years Australia is well-known with bushfire incidents especially during summer, which are widely spread across the country. This has impacted and contributed significantly into shaping the nature of its environment. According to [1], “Eastern Australia is considered as one of the most dangerous fire-zone in the world, and its predominant eucalyptus forests have evolved to thrive on the phenomenon of bushfire”. However, the fires can cause significant damage to the environment and loss of properties, human, and animal life. Since 1851 approximately, 800 people in Australia lost their lives, and billions of animals have been killed because of the bushfires. The advancement of technology and the internet revolution has made, researchers and industry experts to think about how to implement Fire Detection System (FDS) using smart intelligence devices and internet infrastructure to support and protect Australian communities from bushfires. This paper aims to propose a solution that can detect a fire using Internet of Thing (IoT) technology concept connected with cloud-based environment and physical hardware components such as a Raspberry Pi, sensors to detect fire/temperature and drones to build a dedicated national bushfire detection system.