Method and system for monitoring forestry products

Abstract

A method and system for monitoring forestry products are provided in the present invention, wherein at least one active communicating device is disposed on a forestry product, and reading and transmitting devices are also disposed in specific locations for building a monitoring and management mechanism to protect the forestry products from stealing. By means the method and system of the present invention, it is capable of providing real-time monitoring information and collecting evidence of illegal actions immediately so that the management staff can control the situation and status of the forestry products, which is useful for improving the efficiency of forestry management. Meanwhile, the present invention may also help to find those lawless persons who steal and fell illegally the forestry resources so as to ensure the safety of working environment for forest managing staff and sustainable management of forest and natural resources.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a method and system for monitoring forest products, and more particularly, to a forest monitoring method and system for protecting forest resources form being unlawfully exhausted by lawless persons.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Comparing with worldwide average of 30 percent, Taiwan's current forest coverage is 58.8 percent that Taiwan is a country with rich forest resources. Forest is considered to be the most massive, complicated, versatile, functional and beneficial ecosystem on Earth that a healthy forest can be the most important stable factor for any biosphere in water catchment area protection, soil erosion protection, environmental filtration / beautification, regional climate control and natural disaster reduction, and so on.[0003]In the forests growing in the Taiwan's mountain areas, there are many indigenous tree species of high economic value, such as juniper, fir and teak. As most of the forests in Taiwan is ...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]The object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for monitoring forest products, by which not only the status of a forest product can be sensed and registered by the use of at least an active communication device, but also the active communication device is enabled to actively issue signals for informing any relating management personnel and thus enabling the status of the forest product to be known at any time, thereby manpower and resource for managing forest products can be reduced.

[0011]One another object of the invention is to provide a method and system for monitoring forest products, capable of issuing an abnormal signal as soon as an abnormality is detected by the system to a management staff with portable communication apparatus by the use of a radio frequency transmission unit for informing the management staff of such abnormality and thus enabling the management staff to aware of the status of forest products at any time.

Problems solved by technology

As most of the forests in Taiwan is owned and managed by the government and as those precious trees are spreading within Taiwan's vast mountain reserve, forest management performed only by personnel of Taiwan Forest Bureau can be a very difficult task and thus illegal logging are often heard.

Except for illegal logging, with the rapid progress in biotechnology, many scarce indigenous forest resources such as antrodia camphorata and glossy ganoderma that are raw materials for modern medication are also in danger of being exhausted by some illegal means.

Such behavior not only will damage the forest's ecosystem, but also will eventually exhausting all the forest resources along with the forest itself.

However, such method not only may consume and waste many manpower and money, but also it still can neither provide instant protection against those illegal acts, nor can it provides sufficient evidences to nail those lawless persons.

Although all the aforesaid prior-arts involving the inserting of at least one RFID tag into a tree, they all are only capable of obtaining silvicultural information of the tree in a passive manner.

That is, the information obtained by the aforesaid techniques can only be known while being assessed and they are not able to actively inform the management staff if there is any abnormality for enabling the management staff to aware the abnormality in real time.

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