LOW-COST SMS D RIVEN LOCATION TRACKING PLATFORM TOWARDS ANTI-POACHING EFFORTS Jack Burkett

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LOW-COST SMS DRIVEN LOCATION TRACKING PLATFORM

TOWARDS ANTI-POACHING EFFORTS

Jack Burkett

School of Computer Science and Informatics

Cardiff University, UK

BurkettJJ@cardiff.ac.uk

Pablo Orozco Ter Wengel

School of Biosciences

Cardiff University, UK

orozco-terwengelpa@cardiff.ac.uk

Benoit Goossens

School of Biosciences

Cardiff University, UK

goossensbr@cardiff.ac.uk

Omer Rana

School of Computer Science and Informatics

Cardiff University, UK

ranaof@cardiff.ac.uk

Charith Perera

School of Computer Science and Informatics

Cardiff University, UK

pererac@cardiff.ac.uk

October 5, 2022

ABSTRACT

Throughout the world, poaching has been an ever-present threat to a vast array of species for over

many decades. Traditional anti-poaching initiatives target catching the poachers. However, the

challenge is far more complicated than catching individual poachers. Poaching is an industry which

needs to be fully investigated. Many stakeholders are directly and indirectly involved in poaching

activities (e.g., some local restaurants illegally providing meat to tourists). Therefore, stopping or

severely decapitating the poaching industry requires a uniﬁed understanding of all stakeholders.

The best way to uncover these geographical and social relationships is to track the movements of

poachers. However, location tracking is challenging in most rural areas where wildlife sanctuaries

are typically located. Internet-connected communication (e.g. 3G) technologies typically used in

urban cities are not feasible in these rural areas. Therefore, we decided to develop an SMS (short

message service) base low-cost tracking system (SMS-TRACCAR) to track poachers. The proposed

system was developed to be deployed in Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, Sabah, Malaysia and

nearby villages and cities where poachers typically move around. Our evaluations demonstrated

that SMS-based tracking could provide sufﬁcient quality (granular) data (with minimum energy

consumption) that enable us to monitor poacher vehicle movements within rural areas where no other

modern communication technologies are feasible to use. However, it is important to note that our

system can be used in any domain that requires SMS-based geo-location tracking. SMS-TRACCAR

can be conﬁgured to track individuals as well as groups. Therefore, SMS-TRACCAR contributes not

only to the wildlife domain but in the wider context as well.

Keywords Internet of Things, Wildlife Conservation, Anti-poaching,

arXiv:2210.01614v1 [cs.NI] 4 Oct 2022

APREPRINT - OCTOBER 5, 2022

1 Introduction

Sabah [

], a Northern state in Malaysia, is championed for its extensive biodiversity that thrives off the equatorial

climate and tropical rainforests. With such large biodiversity, it is no wonder ecotourism is one of the major industries

of the state [

] and many of Sabah’s visitors are destined for Kinabatangan, a region of Sabah that has been described as

‘Sabah’s Gift to the Earth’ [

]. However, this breadth of species in this area is the consequence of a number of economic

activities around the region that have had a detrimental impact on wildlife. Logging activities and development of areas

for agriculture for crops such as coffee, cocoa, rubber, tobacco and in most recent times, palm oil have pushed the

species of animals and plants into a thin corridor known as the corridor of life. With such a vast array of species in

a relatively small area, it means that it has become a very lucrative spot for poachers. Even though in 2005, under

the state’s Wildlife Conservation Enactment of 1997, a total of 26,000ha was gazetted as the Kinabatangan Wildlife

Sanctuary, it has done little to prevent the prevalent poaching in the region [

]. Whilst the Sumatran Rhinoceros has

been extinct in Malaysia since 2015 [

], the horns of the Rhinoceros can fetch as much as $30,000 per kilogramme [

]

demonstrating how proﬁtable poaching can be. It also highlights a clear demand for these products, which is a huge

part of the problem with poaching, especially in Sabah. Alarmingly, a 2010 TRAFFIC report on the Pangolin trade

in Sabah found that 22,200 Pangolins were traded in 13 months by a trade syndicate [

]. A map of the Kinabatangan

Wildlife Sanctuary is presented in Figure 1.

Figure 1: A map of the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary. Sandakan is the closest major city.

Contribution:

The main aim of this project was to create a low-cost system that uses cheaper consumer-grade location

trackers and allows the user to track the location of vehicles using modiﬁed open-source GPS software without requiring

internet access. Further, the devices must be able to track vehicles over a sufﬁcient period of time, for example, a

minimum of two to three days. The system should also be easy to use and require minimal conﬁguration from the user

to work and operate. We proposed SMS-TRACCAR to address these requirements.

However, it is important to note that our system can be used in any domain that requires SMS-based geo-location

tracking. SMS-TRACCAR can be conﬁgured to track individuals as well as groups. For example, our solution can

be re-utilised to track bicycles in a smart city or joggers in the city without any changes (as groups of individuals).

Therefore, SMS-TRACCAR contributes not only to the wildlife domain but in the wider context as well.

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